Joseph Rice v. Robert Hoke, Warden, Eastern Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York

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• finding evidence did not warrant charge of second-degree manslaughter because it was “impossible to construe [the] events as involving reckless acts.”
• Acting out of anger or jealousy does not constitute a reasonable explanation or excuse.
• Acting out of anger or jealousy does not constitute a reasonable explanation or excuse.
• “the proof showed only that Rice was angry” and “[a]nger alone ... does not amount to a mental infirmity or the loss of self-control associated with the defense of extreme emotional disturbance.”
• “the proof showed only that Rice was angry” and “[a]nger alone ... does not amount to a mental infirmity or the loss of self-control associated with the defense of extreme emotional disturbance.”

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