Homicide 101

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Homicide 101

• First Degree Murderlife
• Second Degree Murder30
• Manslaughter 10
• Accident

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First Degree

• Willful, deliberate, Premeditated
• Felony Murder

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Second degree

• MALACE
• Intent to kill
• Intent to inflict serious bodily injury
• -voluntary intoxication

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Manslaughter

• Reckless Disregard
• Misdemeanor Manslaughter
• -Imperfect Self Defense
• -Heat of Passion
• -Duress

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Accident

• Self Defense

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Self Defense

• Not aggressor (re deadly force)
• Actual belief imminent death/serious bodily harm
• Reasonable belief
• Reasonable force

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Imperfect Self Defense

• Actual belief imminent death/serious bodily harm
• Unreasonable belief re. danger
• Unreasonable belief re. force

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Hot blooded response to legally adequate
provocation

• Actually enraged
• Battery or, warrentless arrest reasonably
  believed to be unlawful, sudden discovery of
  spouse in sex act.
• Still enraged at time of killing
• Reasonable person would not have cooled down