In a drowsy driving case late last year, a tour bus driver was acquitted of manslaughter and negligent homicide in a 2011 Bronx crash that killed 15 people.
However, he told Ekho Moskvy Radio that the results were still preliminary and the Texas authorities were still "considering the possibility of instituting charges over negligent treatment of the child and involuntary manslaughter".
There have been suggestions that Sheffield Wednesday FC and the city's council might face allegations of corporate manslaughter, were it to be demonstrated that they were criminally negligent in failing to protect the fans that fateful Saturday.