Ruth Ellis
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Mansfield's Provocation in Blakely's Killing
David Perry for the crown said in court that provocation didn't arise because there was no final provocative act and no evidence of sudden or temporary loss of control. He told the court a reasonable woman would not have been provoked on the basis of the alleged provocative act. I want to go back to what Mansfield said in that it should have been a question for the jury. Both sides can argue there was provocation, there wasn't provocation. Why take all of it out of their control and basically rule that there was no provocation? And so you either are finding someone guilty or not guilty and if it's guilty, it's murder because that's ultimately what happened. How are you going to find someone
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