Dec 8th, 2008 · Blackwater Worldwide security guards have been charged with killing 17 people at a Baghdad traffic circle. In indictments unveiled Monday, five are being charged with 14 counts of manslaughter and other charges.
Dec 8th, 2008 · Blackwater Worldwide security guards opened machine gun fire on innocent, surrendering Iraqis and launched a grenade into a girls' school during a gruesome Baghdad shooting last year, prosecutors said Monday in announcing manslaughter charges against five guards.
Dec 8th, 2008 · Five American security guards charged in connection with the shooting deaths of 14 civilians in Baghdad last year surrendered to federal agents in Utah on Monday.
Aug 29th, 2008 · A civilian jury in Riverside, Calif., has acquitted a former Marine on charges of voluntary manslaughter. Jose Nazario Jr. was accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004.
Aug 22nd, 2008 · Former Marine Sgt. Jose Luis Nazario began standing trial for manslaughter in Riverside County, Calif. It's the first time that a former service member has stood trial in a civilian court for crimes said to have occurred during the war in Iraq.
Feb 26th, 2008 · In this week's New Yorker, staff writer Calvin Trillin writes about the trial of John White, a black man from Long Island convicted of manslaughter for killing a white teenager who came to his home and threatened his son in the summer of 2006.
Oct 12th, 2007 · A Florida jury has acquitted seven former boot camp guards and a nurse of manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old boy. The videotaped altercation showed the guards hitting and kicking Martin Lee Anderson. Florida Public Radio's Trimmel Gomes reports.
May 22nd, 2007 · A senior district attorney in Santa Barbara County, Calif., used a woman's MySpace.com postings to get a prison sentence in a manslaughter case. The 22-year-old woman was driving drunk when she had an accident in which her passenger was killed.