​What Rule Defines Adequate Provocation as "A Smoldering Resentment or Pent-Up

question 9

Multiple Choice

​What rule defines adequate provocation as "a smoldering resentment or pent-up rage resulting from earlier insults or humiliating events culminating in a triggering event that,by itself,might be insufficient to provoke the deadly act" ?

• A) ​the "last-straw" rule
• B) ​the "words can never provoke" rule
• C) ​the "born alive" rule
• D) ​the manslaughter rule

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