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- What Angel had described to me was voluntary manslaughter, at worst.†
p. 307.7voluntary manslaughter = not planning to kill a person, but then intentionally killing in the heat of passion
- If she tells the truth, I can argue self-defense or voluntary manslaughter because he sodomized her:' "What's the worst case if you go that way?"†
p. 318.2
- If they go with voluntary manslaughter, she'd be eligible for probation, but I doubt if Judge Green would grant it.†
p. 318.4 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(manslaughter) unintentional killing of a personManslaughter can be involuntary (as when a drunk driver accidentally kills someone), or voluntary (as when there was no plan to kill someone, but then the person kills in the heat of passion).
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)