Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 5/16/1983

Commonwealth v. Amaral

Citations

450 N.E.2d 142
389 Mass. 184
1983 Mass. LEXIS 1459

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no error in refusal to give voluntary manslaughter instruction where evidence showed victim shoved defendant only minutes before shooting but defendant left and returned
“Even if we assume that the shoving incident minutes before the shooting could create reasonable provocatian, any threat to the defendant stemming from the shoving incident disappeared when the defendant left the scene”
“Even if we assume that the shoving incident minutes before the shooting could create reasonable provocation, any threat to the defendant stemming from the shoving incident disappeared when the defendant left the scene”
threat must be of an “immediate and intense offense”

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Judges: Hennessey, Abrams, Nolan, Lynch, O'Connor

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