The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday let stand a 26-year-old doctrine that the passion-provocation defense is allowed only in murder cases and not for manslaughter. The Legislature could have ...

In a trial where prosecutors unwittingly helped make the case in support of Kyle Rittenhouse’s right of self-defense, they sought during closing arguments to deprive him of that right by arguing that ...

Queensland’s archaic provocation defence could be scrapped after a review of legislation found it could be abused by domestic violence offenders.

For the first time, a Maryland court has decided whether a substantial battery on a criminal defendant’s close relative is an adequate provocation that would allow a murder charge to be reduced to a ...

Provocation is not an innocent act. Under specific circumstances, provocation constitutes a tort or even a crime, especially when it deliberately generates a violent response. There is no binding ...