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Have a little read: ... "Is it morally sustainable for sudden anger to found a partial defence to murder?" Discuss this quotation in relation to the context of provocation as a defence to murder. Provocation acts as a partial defence to murder, but only to reduce the conviction to manslaughter. The defence of provocation only becomes relevant when the prosecution can show evidence that proves that the defendant killed the victim with the necessary mens rea for murder, that is 'an intention to kill or an intention to cause grievously bodily harm'.1 If the jury accepts that the defendant may have been provoked to lose his self control and that a reasonable person may have been provoked to lose his self control and do so as the defendant, they must acquit of murder and convict of manslaughter. This is known as the subjective and objective test. Subjective the defendant must be shown to have actually lost his

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