Late one evening,Charlie is driving his automobile home from a New Year's Eve party.He is severely intoxicated.Charlie drives his car southbound onto the northbound lane of a divided highway.In less than a quarter of a mile,he strikes another vehicle head-on.The other driver is killed instantly.Police arrest Charlie at the scene.Under the American System of Classification of criminal homicide,Charlie has committed:

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Charlie committed involuntary manslaughter, which is the unintentional killing of another person as a result of reckless behavior or criminal negligence. While he was driving drunk, he did not intend to kill the other driver, making it different from murder. Vehicular homicide may also be used to describe this crime, but it is not the official term in the American System of Classification of criminal homicide. Second degree murder would require Charlie to have acted with malice aforethought, which does not apply in this scenario.

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