California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Veliz, D059524 (Cal. App. 2012):
Such a scenario indicates premeditation and deliberation, not conduct based "upon a 'sudden and unconsidered impulse[].' " (People v. Wickersham, supra, 32 Cal.3d at p. 330.) "[I]f sufficient time has elapsed between the provocation and the fatal blow for passion to subside and reason to return, the killing is not voluntary manslaughter." (Id. at p. 327.) Evidence of preplanning shows the defendant's passion had subjectively cooled before the murder. (People v. Golsh (1923) 63 Cal.App. 609, 617.)
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