Nope. She never had the intent to kill (mens rea) meaning she's innocent of murder and manslaughter any day of the week.
As for reckless conduct and battery... well, it's definitely not battery, as the punch was requested. It's the reason every time consenting adults have sex then it's not sexual assault or rape, as it's consensual.
However, you could make a case for it being reckless conduct as throwing a punch, even if requested to, could reasonably result in injury.
Hasn't there been people who have been charged with manslaughter after a punch or a shove resulted in a person falling backwards and banging their head on the ground which then caused fatal injury?
Sure the difference in this case is that the punch was requested but if the aforementioned cases can have someone prosecuted for the results of their actions rather than their actions themselves coudl this one not?
I don't think it should but if other cases have....................
Nope. She never had the intent to kill (mens rea) meaning she's innocent of murder and manslaughter any day of the week.
As for reckless conduct and battery... well, it's definitely not battery, as the punch was requested. It's the reason every time consenting adults have sex then it's not sexual assault or rape, as it's consensual.
However, you could make a case for it being reckless conduct as throwing a punch, even if requested to, could reasonably result in injury.
But that would be battery. The fact it was requested makes a world of difference.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/battery
Battery
At common law, an intentional unpermitted act causing harmful or offensive contact with the "person" of another.
If the punch was not requested, it would automatically become battery, and could easily be involuntary manslaughter. There's no such thing as "just a punch" - bodily contact that results in death, no matter how minor, in manslaughter if that contact was a direct cause of the death.