People v. Roche

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the defendant’s “attempt to evade detection” undermined the basis for a defense of extreme emotional disturbance
• refusing EMED jury instruction to defendant who stabbed his wife more than a dozen times
• trial court not obligated to charge EED defense where evidence showed “defendant acted out of anger or embarrassment or both”
• “In the absence of the requisite proof, an extreme emotional disturbance charge should not be given because it would invite the jury to engage in impermissible speculation concerning defendant's state of mind at the time of the homicide.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).