The provocation defense would only have been available if he had killed one of them.
I know how shit it is to be bullied as a kid, but even maiming is pretty disproportionate.
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 21:55, Reply)
killing is disproportionate also
so why have the provocation defence for one crime and not the other?
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 22:00, Reply)
Can't answer that.
One of the few universal truths is that the law does not always make sense.
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 22:04, Reply)
the answer could be that the law changes haphazardly very very slowly
(, Sun 30 Nov 2014, 22:15, Reply)