Voluntary Manslaughter Flashcards

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s.54 Coroners and Justice Act (1)

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Where a person kills or is a party to the killing of another, the person is not to be convicted of murder if…

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s.54 Coroners and Justice act (1) (a)

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The killing resulted from a loss of control

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s.54 Coroners and Justice act (1) (b)

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The loss of self-control had a qualifying trigger

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s.54 Coroners and Justice act (1) (c)

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A person of D’s sex and age, with a normal degree of tolerance and self-restraint and in the circumstances of D, might have reacted in the same or similar way

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s.54 (2)

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Does not matter whether or not the loss of control was sudden

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D had a 12-hour cooling off period before shooting V with a shotgun case

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R v Jewell

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s.55 (3)

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D’s fear of serious violence

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s.55 (4)

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Things said and done

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Two types of things done and said

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(a) of an extremely grave character

(b) D had a justifiable sense of being seriously wronged

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