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What is Homicide?
Homicide is defined as “the killing of one human by another.”(Legal-dictionary, 2008) There are 3 categories of homicide which include first and second degree Murder, Manslaughter and Justifiable Homicide. First degree murder is when a person plans to and follows through with the killing of another person where the intent was death such as a boyfriend finding out his girlfriend is pregnant but because he does not want the baby he pushes the girlfriend down the stairs and kills them both he could then be charged with two counts of first degree murder. Second degree murder is almost like first degree murder in the sense that a person killed another person but they did not plan to kill them for example if a person were driving while drunk and caused an accident that killed another person she could be charged with second degree murder because she did not plan to crash and kill the other person but her actions of drinking caused the accident and the death of that person
Manslaughter is defined as a person who kills another person by their actions but did not plan or intend for the death to happen. Manslaughter can be classified into two categories which are involuntary and voluntary. Involuntary manslaughter happens when a person is texting and driving as they cross the line into oncoming traffic and crashed into another vehicle killing the other driver, they did not mean to kill anyone but because they were negligently texting and driving it caused the death of the other driver. An example of voluntary manslaughter is when a husband walks into a bar and sees his wife kissing on another guy, he then goes over and starts confronting the other guy which turns into a fight and the outcome is the other guy being killed b...

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