People v. Siverly

How courts have described this case

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• the provocation must be proportionate to the manner in which the accused retaliates; use of a deadly weapon is evidence of a disproportionate response
• defense counsel’s concession of the defendant’s guilt only to the lesser-included offense of voluntary manslaughter in the hope of 9 avoiding a murder conviction was viewed as good defense strategy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).