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criminal negligence

Wisconsin law (WI Statute 939.25) defines criminal negligence as ordinary negligence to a a higher degree, consisting of conduct that a person should have realized created a substantial and unreasonable risk of death or great bodily harm to another person or an unborn child or the woman pregnant with an unborn child.

Criminal negligence means the creation of a substantial and unresonable risk of death or great bodily harm to another. See Vehicular Homicide, Negligent Homicide.

Causation

Criminal negligence requires that the risk be of such a nature and such a degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonble person would observe in the situation.

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