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Provocation, provoke or provoked may refer to: Provocation (legal) , a type of legal defense in court which claims the "victim" provoked the accused's actions Agent provocateur , a (generally political) group that tries to goad a desired response from the group or otherwise disrupt its activity
In law, provocation is when a person is considered to have committed a criminal act partly because of a preceding set of events that might cause a reasonable individual to lose self control.
An agent provocateur may be a police officer or a secret agent of police who encourages suspects to carry out a crime under conditions where evidence can be obtained; or who suggests the commission of a crime to another, in hopes they will go along with the suggestion and be convicted of the crime.
Badgering: counsel is antagonizing the witness to provoke a response, either by asking questions without giving the witness an opportunity to answer or by openly mocking the witness. Best evidence rule : requires that the original source of evidence is required, if available; for example, rather than asking a witness about the contents of a ...
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In English law, provocation was a mitigatory defence to murder which had taken many guises over generations many of which had been strongly disapproved and modified. In closing decades, in widely upheld form, it amounted to proving a reasonable total loss of control as a response to another's objectively provocative conduct sufficient to convert what would otherwise have been murder into ...
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