Manslaughter charge rejected in boating death

[BoatingBay]

"The question has to be extended to whether the cause of the injury, in this case the death, was foreseeable by the defendant. And if so, he is not relieved of criminal liability"
A Sonoma County judge on Wednesday denied prosecutors' request to reinstate a felony manslaughter charge against a man who was piloting a boat on Lake Sonoma when a drunken friend jumped off the stern and was ... via The Press Democrat