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1st degree means pre meditated.
Should be negligent homicide.
1st degree doesn't mean premeditated, it means to the highest degree. A murder charge typically implies premeditation whereas manslaughter implies recklessness.
1st degree manslaughter sounds right to me, killing someone accidentally through extreme recklessness in this case.
You right, but consider this. You can't get plea deals without inflated charges. The pre-meditation could be that "he went into the house". He had the game on. He didn't NEED to be inside, he chose to go inside. If he was carrying a gun while he went inside AND anticipated an altercation, then you can make the argument, however poorly cobbled together, that he had thought this shit through.
"But, there's no plea deal for a man who died by suicide!" You're right. But it's a nice way to slide some precedent through because who is going to defend this asshole? Nobody.
Now, the next time someone does something similar and lives, you got that sweet murder 1 baybeee! They went into somewhere they didn't need to be, knowing that it would provoke an altercation, and they were carrying their firearm with intent to use it when the situation escalated (State of Oklahoma v. Cody Wayne Adams). Hell, this citation can be scraped by some language learning model and appear down the road to support this scenario when an overworked intern slaps together a brief for an attorney who is focused on numbers.
It doesn't have to be a good argument. It just has to be AN argument.