Something I am confused about in this case...

The female primary defendant was found guilty of both 2nd degree murder AND involuntary manslaughter. I am moderately familiar with the definitions, and it would seem these would be rather mutually exclusive. Plus there's the entire issue that she's been convicted on two counts of THE SAME ACT.

I fully believe she is guilty of the 2nd degree count - from trial comments and from her own confesses actions, she showed both horrible negligence and extremely suspect motives for keeping the dogs in the first place, the standard of 'wanton and callous disregard for human life' in my opinion were definitely met with such comments as "she should have just gone back in her apartment", and the fact that the dogs had full run of the victim for TEN minutes.

I just can't get my head around the simultaneous counts for the same act.

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