Delaware Supreme Court reverses conviction in Howard High bathroom fight death
Delaware’s Supreme Court has overturned last year’s conviction of a Wilmington teen in connection the death of a classmate following a bathroom fight at Howard High School.
The Supreme Court reversed last April’s decision by a Family Court judge finding 17-year-old Trinity Carr culpable of criminally negligent homicide in the death of 16-year-old Amy Joyner-Francis.
The Family Court court ruling found that although Joyner-Francis died of sudden cardiac arrest precipitated by a rare congenital heart defect, the criminally negligent legal standard applied to Carr.
In its reversal, the Supreme Court disagreed, saying Joyner-Francis’ death from cardiac arrest was “too remote” from the hazards of Carr’s conduct and “too accidental in its occurrence” for Carr’s physical attack to constitute criminally negligent homicide.
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