To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant’s conduct must be “so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime.”
Depraved indifference is what many of the state’s most conservative constituents, some of them still Republicans and many of them who have since “gone independent,” would have liked to see the Governor criminally charged with. » Read the rest of this entry «