California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Morrison, A152440 (Cal. App. 2019):
precludes the defendant from subjectively deliberating or premeditating, the crime is second degree murder. [Citation.] If the provocation would cause a reasonable person to react with deadly passion, the defendant is deemed to have acted without malice so as to further reduce the crime to voluntary manslaughter. [Citation.]." (People v. Hernandez (2010) 183 Cal.App.4th 1327, 1332 (Hernandez).)
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