What Is Federal Murder Or Federal Homicide? Andrew Russek, a leading criminal defense attorney with Combs Waterkotte, discusses the distinction between murder and homicide as it relates to federal criminal cases.
Interview Transcript
Scott Michael Dunn: There’s obviously a difference, but what is a federal homicide or a federal murder? What’s the difference between the two?
Andrew Russek: Well, a homicide, whether it’s federal or state, is just any death that was caused by another. And not an accidental, [or] “I died of old age,” anything of that. So involuntary manslaughter, voluntary manslaughter, all those things are homicides.
Murder is when there’s an intentionality to it. Different jurisdictions are gonna define that differently. But, murder is more, “I deliberately took a life.” Homicide is [death] that happened for unordinary circumstances.
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