Mullaney v. Wilbur
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mullaney-v-wilbur-198-18047936
title:
Mullaney v. Wilbur
text:
Mullaney v. Wilbur, 421 U.S. 684 (1975), is a criminal case in which a unanimous court struck down a state statute requiring a defendant to prove the defense of provocation to downgrade a murder conviction to manslaughter. Previous common law, such as in Commonwealth v. York (1845), allowed such burden on the defense. Maine's statute defined murder as unlawfully killing with malice, with malice defined as deliberate and unprovoked cruelty, and added that killings were presumed to be unprovoked u
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1975 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullaney_v._Wilbur
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2023-09-13T02:46:18Z
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