☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Voluntary Manslaughter

An intentional killing committed in the heat of passion upon adequate provocation — reducing murder to manslaughter because the defendant's emotional state diminished culpability.

Category: Criminal Law · Source: Black's Law Dictionary
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