(DOWNLOAD) "People V. Rios" by California Supreme Court # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People V. Rios
- Author : California Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 29, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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On retrial after a prior acquittal of murder, defendant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for a homicide the jury found to be both unlawful (i.e., neither justified nor excused) and intentional. Defendant asserts, among other things, that the voluntary manslaughter instructions were prejudicially incomplete because they omitted the voluntary manslaughter "elements" that the killing must have occurred in a heat of passion upon sufficient provocation (hereafter heat of passion or provocation), or in the actual but unreasonable belief in the need for self-defense (hereafter imperfect self-defense). In effect, defendant urges that if the jury believed he committed an intentional, unlawful killing, without provocation or belief in the need to defend himself, it must acquit him of voluntary manslaughter.