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Alice's lawyers decide that Alice denies murder, but will plead guilty to manslaughter by provocation. The question is now, will the jury agree?
"'''Manslaughter provocation'''", in English law, requires actual provocation and must pass a test of whether a reasonable, sober, self-controlled person would
In the US, it is one of the three partial defences to murder (the others being diminished and unjustified use of force in what they though was self-defence).
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This can be [[Truth in Television]], [[Awful Truth|Sadly enough]].
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== [[Literature]] ==▼
* Appears in the novel ''[[Two Women]]'' by Martina Cole.▼
▲== Literature ==
▲* Appears in the novel ''Two Women'' by Martina Cole.
* This is exactly what [[Billy Budd]] did, but it was still handled as murder. The victim only got what he deserved...
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The entire plot of ''Criminal Justice 2'', a five-part 2009 [[BBC]] mini-series starring Maxine Peake, who kills her abusive husband with a knife. {{spoiler|She'd brought the knife to bed planning to kill herself when her husband raped her again, but turned the knife on him. The jury goes for manslaughter provocation. The judge gives her five years, though, enough for her to lose the baby she conceived with another man.}}
* A ''[[Law
** This premise was originally used in the American [[Law and Order]].
* ''[[Waterloo Road]]'', {{spoiler|where a pupil kills her sexually abusive father, although it's as yet unclear if she'll get a jury to go for manslaughter provocation, as it was pre-meditated.}}
* ''[[Justified (TV series)|Justified]]'' The antagonist's brother is killed by his wife who blows his head off with a shotgun at the dinner table. It is implied that she will plead to manslaughter. Nobody in the town seems to have a problem with what she did since the husband was an abusive drunk who beat her constantly. Even the antagonist considers her actions justified and seems more concerned with the fact that she is now single. This kind of thing appears to be a central theme of the show.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Although played for laughs, the ladies of ''[[Chicago]]'' all plead this in "The Cell Block Tango." Nobody's buying it.▼
▲* Although played for laughs, the ladies of [[Chicago]] all plead this in "The Cell Block Tango." Nobody's buying it.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Silent Hill 2]]'' has two examples:
** Angela Oscoro, the [[Woobie]] of the game, {{spoiler|killed her father after nearly twenty years of [[Parental Incest|sexual abuse]]}}. The effects of {{spoiler|her father's abuse}} have left her unable to be anywhere near others without having a mental breakdown; this can be seen when James attempts to help her and she shrieks at him and runs away instead.
** In a ''far'' less sympathetic example, Eddie Dombroski kills five or six people ([[And Zoidberg|and one dog]]) because [[Disproportionate Retribution|they made fun of him for being overweight]].
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