People v. Fortson

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the trial court trial properly allowed the prosecutor to amend the information to add a felony-firearm count after an original charge of open murder
• holding there was no unfair surprise to the defendant when the trial court granted the amendment to add a new charge “an additional four months before [the] defendant was brought to trial”
• “Voluntary manslaughter is an intentional killing committed . . . before a reasonable time has passed for the blood to cool and reason to resume its habitual control.”
• “Voluntary manslaughter is an intentional killing committed . . . before a reasonable time has passed for the blood to cool and reason to resume its habitual control.”
• “[T]he fact that no one but defendant saw the victim with a gun . . . was sufficient for the jury to find that defendant’s belief of imminent danger was either not honest or was unreasonable.”

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