What constitutes a provocative act of murder?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Lee Arthur Fort, E064633 (Cal. App. 2017):

Provocative act murder may be of the first or second degree. (People v. Mejia, supra, 211 Cal.App.4th at p. 604.) "When the defendant acts with express malice alone

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