When it comes to first degree is is a situation in which someone is being accused of killing another human but it be when the person planned to kill the victim. Malice comes into play when evil intent. When charge with first degree you are including life in prison or death penalty if they are founded convicted. (n.d.). Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Retrieved November 08, 2016, from http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm Second degree murder on the other hand is usually applied to a cases when crime of passion occur is when the person didn’t have time to think about it they just went with what came to their mind right then. For example a man out working all day and come home to his wife with doing that he caught her in the bed with another man so he decided to just shoot her, he didn’t think about it so they would charge him with second. Another example is driving into a crowd of …show more content…
Most time when thinking about manslaughter you think about DUI. For instance when the person is driving in get into an accident and it is being caused by drinking and driving them most time will charge you with manslaughter. When trying to find out if a person is being guilty of it first someone has to been killed as a result of act by the person, the act is dangerous and the defendant know the threat he or she may have conducted to others. Voluntary manslaughter is defined as an intentional killing in which offender is intent to kill, which leads to emotionally and mentally disturbed. Example was Jake came home to find his wife and Victor in the bed. In the head of the moment Jake hit Victor on top of the head killing him. The arrangement of murder is construct exclusively in light of police examination instead of the assurance of a court, restorative inspector, coroner, jury, or other legal body. The UCR Program does ignore the accompanying circumstances in this offense order; passing brought about by carelessness, suicide, reasonable manslaughters; and endeavors to murder or ambushes to murder, The UCR Program divides offenses into two classifications: Part 1 includes murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny,