Story is
here.
Basically he was out deer hunting and had shot a deer. He then spotted something white flashing and took it to be the tail of the deer and fired. Turns out the white flash was a piece of clothing worn around the neck by his female neighbor, who died on the spot.
He goes free. While the death was probably accidental, his failure to identify the target before firing is, IMHO, crimininally negligent. And if he thought the scarf was the tail of a deer, wouldn't he fire at the upper part of the body instead of the tail - had he done this then his bullet would have gone wide and missed the woman.
I dunno. I know that in Denmark he'd get sentenced for negligent behaviour and manslaughter and do 1-4 years in jail.
Am surprised you can be so grossly negligent, kill someone, and walk free. Since I am not too familiar with US laws, perhaps someone can explain it to me? If it is an accident in the US and someone dies, you do not necessarily get jailed for manslaughter/murder, that much I know. But if there's crimininal negligence behind it, you get charged - yet even though this negligence is substantiated in court you can go free? Did he go free on a legal technicality (happens here too, annoys the hell outta me) or have I misunderstood something?
He was charged after all, but acquitted. Just how, I dunno.