Is there any difference between a reasonable but good faith belief in the need to act in self-defense and a voluntary manslaughter?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Beltran, Ct.App. 1/4 A124392, S192644 (Cal. 2013):
3. A killing committed under the unreasonable but good faith belief in the need to act in self-defense is a killing done without malice and also constitutes voluntary manslaughter. (People v. Blacksher (2011) 52 Cal.4th 769, 832.) That form of manslaughter is not at issue here.
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