United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant's conviction and sentence for voluntary manslaughter for fatally stabbing her husband during a domestic dispute while accompanying U.S. Armed Forces in Turkey is reversed where the district court committed reversible error in refusing to give an involuntary manslaughter instruction, as there was sufficient evidence at trial to support an involuntary manslaughter instruction.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/13/2006
• Decided 01/25/2007
• Published 01/25/2007

Judges

• BETTY B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before B. FLETCHER, FERNANDEZ, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Jonathan D. Libby, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Jerry A. Behnke, Assistant United States Attorney, Riverside, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.