California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Castrellon, E065592 (Cal. App. 2019):
A reduction to second degree murder, however, similarly requires that the accused must form the intent to kill as a direct and immediate response to the provocation. (People v. Fenenbock, supra, 46 Cal.App.4th at p. 1705.) It follows that merely seeing a
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