Delivery of a controlled substance causing death, offense of
If someone gives or sells a drug to another person, and they knew that drug was mixed with another controlled drug, and someone dies from using it, that is a serious crime. It does not matter if the person who died chose to use the drug themselves. This crime is a Class A felony, which is one of the most serious levels of crime in Missouri.
Classifications stated in the statute. Actual outcomes vary.
579.022. of a causing death, of — — definition. — 1. A person commits the offense of delivery of a controlled substance causing death if a person a controlled substance under section 579.020 knowing such substance is mixed with another controlled substance and a death results from the use of such controlled substance.
2. It shall not be a that the user contributed to the user's own death by using the controlled substance or consenting to the of the controlled substance by another.
3. The offense of delivery of a controlled substance causing death is a .
4. For purposes of this section, "controlled substance" means a , as defined in section 195.017.
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Source & history notes
(L. 2024 S.B. 754, et al.)
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