Joe discovers that his girlfriend is sleeping with Tom. Joe is deeply in love with his girlfriend and is upset at learning that she is cheating on him

So after thinking about it for several days, he hunts down both Tom and the girlfriend and kills them both. Should he be charged with murder or voluntary manslaughter? Explain your answer.


murder- There is a question about whether his provocation was sufficient to reduce his crime to manslaughter. The waiting of several days would be considered as sufficient cooling off time to remove any provocation.

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a. egoists b. utilitarians c. pluralists d. moralists

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La Nuestra Familia can be described as

a. paramilitary b. allied with the Aryan Brotherhood c. allied with the Mexican Mafia d. all of the above

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If control is ________ at the top of an organization, then power is distributed in a top-down, bureaucratic, hierarchical fashion

A) decentralized B) centralized C) flexible D) fluid E) absent

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The goal of restorative justice is:

A. capitally punishing criminals. B. encouraging the general public to take the law into their own hands. C. for healing and forgiveness to replace punishment and retribution. D. to look for retribution in the criminal justice system.

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