Manslaughter charges have been dropped against the father of a mentally ill man who murdered three people in Adelaide.
Donato Corbo, 40, was detained for life in a mental health facility for shooting dead his neighbour Luc Mombers and Mr Mombers' parents-in-law in April last year at Hectorville.
Corbo's father, Giuseppi Corbo, 71, was subsequently charged with three counts of manslaughter.
Prosecutors told the Adelaide Magistrates Court it was manslaughter by negligence because the gun used in the shootings belonged to Giuseppi Corbo and his son knew where to find the keys to his gun and ammunition cabinets.
They said Giuseppi Corbo breached a duty of care because he went camping interstate but was aware of his son's fragile mental state and history of violent crime.
Magistrate Bob Harrap ruled there was not enough evidence to prove the case beyond reasonable doubt and found there was no case to answer.
NEWPORT BEACH - An Apple Valley man who crashed into the back of a minivan in 2007, killing three young siblings from Ladera Ranch, was sentenced to 364 days in jail and five years of probation this morning at Harbor Justice Center. Jorge Miguel Romero, 38, was convicted of vehicular manslaughter on Aug. 22, 2008, after he pleaded no contest to three misdemeanor counts for the May 4, 2007, crash that killed 5-year-old Kyle, 4-year-old Emma and 2-year-old Katie Coble. Romero's attorney, Andrew Roth, told Superior Court Judge Craig E. Robison that while his client accepted responsibility for smashing into the family's minivan in his semi, Caltrans was also to blame for failing to make improvements to a high-traffic off-ramp. Roth cited ignored Caltrans reports from 1998 and 2000 that called for an additional lane at the Oso Parkway off-ramp from the I-5 freeway, because traffic was backing up on the freeway for a half-mile before the exit. Before pronouncing the sentence, Robison noted that most misdemeanor manslaughter cases he's heard do not result in jail time. "The reason this is different is Mr. Romero is a professional driver," Robison said. If regulations governing pilots, captains and drivers aren't enforced, Robison said, "they really are just words on paper." Romero had driven the same stretch of highway that week and should have been aware of trouble spots, Robison said. Robison also concluded that Romero was on the phone at the time, and that he likely had been ...Video Rating: 5 / 5
For nearly six years, they were locked up facing a possible death sentence for a grisly 2001 triple homicide in Ypsilanti Township. On Friday, a federal judge dismissed the charges against Deondre Byrd and three other men after a federal prosecutor said new evidence came to light last Friday that prevented the government from taking the case to trial. It was the second time in three years that Byrd escaped murder charges. He has been imprisoned in recent years for both the triple homicide and the slaying of a 16-year-old girl in Ann Arbor, but he has been convicted on only a federal gun charge. "Obviously, I'm pretty upset that almost 11 years later, we still don't have any answers," said Christy Brown, 30, a close family friend of the victims of the triple homicide. She said she got a call from federal prosecutors Thursday saying the case was being dropped, but they wouldn't elaborate. "I was very surprised. I honestly thought they were making some...
FLINT, MI -- There have been 189 murders in the city since 2010. Below is a map of the locations of each murder in the last three years, as well as the names of the slain on Flint's battlefield. The spike in murders occurred almost immediately after large-scale layoffs in March of 2010. By year's end the city had set a record with 66 murders, breaking the previous mark of 61 set in 1986. Killing continued in 2011 with 57 murders. A look at the map shows the majority of the murders took place on the north and east sides, historically the most economically depressed areas of the city. Just 25 murders in the last three years occurred south of Court Street. The map is color-coded by year. Green markers denote 2012 murders while red markers are from 2011 and blue from 2010. 2012 No. 1: Jan. 11: Kevin Berger, 55, died Jan. 11 after a Jan. 10 double shooting at his home on Keller Avenue near Welch Boulevard around 10:15 pm. Darius McGee, 25, was also critically shot. He survi...
A manslaughter charge against a Marathon man accused of helping cause the death of a teenager by letting her drive drunk has been dropped due to what prosecutors say is lack of evidence. Michael Mearns, 26, the son of former Marathon Mayor Randy Mearns and grandson of former Marathon Councilwoman Margie Mearns, had been charged with manslaughter by culpable negligence following a Feb. 25, 2011, crash in which 17-year-old Amber Kogelis of Lower Matecumbe Key died. "You have to prove he knew she was drinking," State Attorney Catherine Vogel said Wednesday. "It's clear we do not have evidence of the impairment." That's even though an autopsy revealed Kogelis had a blood alcohol content of .125. In Florida, .08 is considered legally drunk. "It didn't rise to the level beyond a reasonable doubt," said Assistant State Attorney Paunece Ramage. "She wasn't stumbling, she wasn't holding herself up" in a video prosecutors re...
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