Ventura Homicide Lawyer Defends Against Your Manslaughter Charges

1. Self-defense or Defense of Others: You killed an individual to protect yourself or another from being killed, from suffering great bodily injury or from being raped, maimed or robbed.
2. Imperfect Self-defense: Often used with Battered Women’s Syndrome, you believed that you or another was in imminent danger and the force was necessary to defend against danger, but there was, in fact, no imminent danger.
3. Insanity: You did not understand the nature of your act when killing another and/or you cannot distinguish from right and wrong.
4. Accident: You had no intent to harm another, you were not acting negligently and you were not engaged in an unlawful act at the time of the murder.