California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Superior Court (Dorsey), 50 Cal.App.4th 1216, 58 Cal.Rptr.2d 165 (Cal. App. 1996):
11 People v. Superior Court (Du), supra, was a case in which a Korean shopkeeper fatally shot a teenage girl who may, or may not, have been attempting to shoplift and threatening the defendant. The trial court found that defendant acted as a result of provocation, and that her gun use (the limiting fact) was less serious than usual because she had not armed herself for crime, but merely seized a weapon kept in the shop for protection. The defendant thus satisfied two of the rule 413 factors. The case gives a useful example of when a limiting fact is less serious than usual.
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