What is second degree murder?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rivera, 276 Cal.Rptr.3d 390, 62 Cal.App.5th 217 (Cal. App. 2021):
"Second degree murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought but without the additional elements, such as willfulness, premeditation, and deliberation, that would support a conviction of first degree murder." ( People v. Knoller (2007) 41 Cal.4th 139, 151, 59 Cal.Rptr.3d 157, 158 P.3d 731.) All murders committed with implied malice
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