UCLA School of Law Expert Available to Discuss the Guilty Verdict of George Weller.LOS ANGELES -- The following UCLA School of Law The UCLA School of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. It is generally regarded as the top law school in Southern California, as well as one of the top fifteen law schools in the United States. professor is available for interviews regarding the guilty verdict of George Weller, the 89-year-old man whose car tore through a Santa Monica, Calif., farmers market, killing 10 people and injuring 63 others. He was accused of 10 counts of vehicular manslaughter vehicular manslaughter n. the crime of causing the death of a human being due to illegal driving of an automobile, including gross negligence, drunk driving, reckless driving, or speeding. with gross negligence An indifference to, and a blatant violation of, a legal duty with respect to the rights of others. Gross negligence is a conscious and voluntary disregard of the need to use reasonable care, which is likely to cause foreseeable grave injury or harm to persons, property, or in the July 2003 incident. Peter Arenella Professor of Law UCLA School of Law (310) 387-4768 eI cell phone Peter Arenella is a nationally recognized criminal law and procedure scholar who teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and seminars on moral agency and criminal law excuse theory. He speaks regularly on criminal law issues to civic groups, attorneys and judges across the country, and he achieved national prominence for his media commentary on several major cases, including the O.J. Simpson trial. Professor Arenella writes about the relationship between criminal and moral responsibility by exploring competing conceptions of criminal culpability culpability (See: culpable) and moral agency at work in immaturity and mental disability defenses (e.g., insanity, diminished capacity This doctrine recognizes that although, at the time the offense was committed, an accused was not suffering from a mental disease or defect sufficient to exonerate him or her from all criminal responsibility, the accused's mental capacity may have been diminished by intoxication, , mental retardation). |
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