After appealing, the arsonists were granted a retrial, at which they won sharply reduced sentences for pleading guilty to the lesser crime of two counts of manslaughter by gross negligence.
The complaint also stated that he exercised gross negligence and acted beyond the reasonable judgment of any physician and used a number of embryos that far exceeded existing guidelines.
Gross negligence manslaughter exists as a complementary form, and, if a driver was sufficiently negligent, as well he might, he would be liable for it.
