☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Provocation

Conduct by the victim that is sufficient to cause a reasonable person to lose self-control, potentially reducing murder to voluntary manslaughter if the defendant acted in the heat of passion.

Etymology: Latin 'provocatio' (a calling forth, challenge) · Category: Criminal Law · Source: Model Penal Code § 210.3(1)(b)
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