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Homicide
is either-- 1) Murder (see that title); or (2) Manslaughter (see that title); and this is either-- (a) Voluntary, where a man doing an unlawful act, not amounting to felony, by accident kills another; or (b) Involuntary,
force
belief in the need for deadly force has been used to justify reducing a charge of murder to voluntary manslaughter. Additionally, a police officer is generally justified in using deadly force to prevent the escape of a suspect
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