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It is obvious that OJ didn't drive to Nicole's house to kill her. Seeing Goldman put him into a state of rage. And murdering someone in that state is not generally accepted by the public as deserving of conviction of a crime that carries the sentence of life without parole.
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So this, finally, is the straightforward version of your point without all the inflamatory nonsense and extraneous mispeaks you couldn't get to stick against the wall? This is the point which only morons would disagree with?
Heat of Passion
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HEAT OF PASSION - A mental state provoked by fear, rage, anger or terror that, combined with
adequate provocation, is an element of certain crimes like voluntary manslaughter. Provocation, in order to be adequate, must be such as
might naturally cause a reasonable person in the passion of the moment to lose self-control and act on impulse and without reflection. The effect is to to act as an extenuating circumstance that can reduce the severity of the crime charged almost like a defense.
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So any non-Moron such as yourself should be able to see that this was obviously a case of "adequate provocation".
Compare to the example of adequate provocation given in this definition of Crime of Passion.
Crime of Passion
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crime of passion n. a defendant's excuse for committing a crime due to sudden anger or heartbreak, in order to eliminate the element of "premeditation." This usually arises in murder or attempted murder cases,
when a spouse or sweetheart finds his/her "beloved" having sexual intercourse with another and shoots or stabs one or both of the coupled pair. To make this claim the defendant must have acted immediately upon the rise of passion, without the time for contemplation or allowing for "a cooling of the blood." It is sometimes called the "Law of Texas" since juries in that state are supposedly lenient to cuckolded lovers who wreak their own vengeance. The benefit of eliminating premeditation is to lessen the provable homicide to manslaughter with no death penalty and limited prison terms. An emotionally charged jury may even acquit the impassioned defendant.
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I suspect that most murders are carried out in some fit of rage or another. Not all fits of rage have adequate provocation to justify a defense as a Crime of Passion. It looks like any non-Moron such as Sklansky would have all such First and Second degree murders while in a rage reduced to the crime of Manslaughter.
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