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Provocation is the quintessential 'crime of passion ' defence. It consists of subjective elements: did the accused lose control and kill under provocation?----- and objective elements: could an ordinary person also have been provoked into losing control? Once evidence of provocation has been raised, the prosecution needs to disprove provocation
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