How have courts reduced malice murder to voluntary manslaughter?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Jones, 167 Cal.Rptr.3d 659, 223 Cal.App.4th 995 (Cal. App. 2014):
may negate the elements of premeditation, deliberateness and willfulness that are required for that degree of the crime. ( People v. Hernandez (2010) 183 Cal.App.4th 1327, 1333, 107 Cal.Rptr.3d 915 ( Hernandez ).) But more is required to reduce malice murder to voluntary manslaughter. For that, an objective test also applies: the provocation must be so great that, in the
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