Jim Calvin Carroll Jr. v. State of Florida

How courts have described this case

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• “A defendant commits voluntary manslaughter when a homicide that is committed either with intent to kill or with conscious disregard for life—and therefore would normally constitute murder—is nevertheless reduced or mitigated to manslaughter.” (Emphasis added.)
• “A defendant commits voluntary manslaughter when a homicide that is committed either with intent to kill or with conscious disregard for life — and therefore would normally constitute murder — is nevertheless reduced or mitigated to manslaughter.” (Emphasis added.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).