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[-] [email protected] 105 points 7 months ago

According to NY legal code, it is not murder if:

The defendant acted under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance for which there was a reasonable explanation or excuse, the reasonableness of which is to be determined from the viewpoint of a person in the defendant's situation under the circumstances as the defendant believed them to be.

[-] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago

this is where jury nullification comes in.

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