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Appellate Practice

Dec. 9, 2003

Provoker Cannot Be Provoked, Panel Says

LOS ANGELES - A man who showed up outside the Artesia home of his former girlfriend, shouted insults and threats and then stabbed her brother to death cannot claim to have been provoked into violence, an appeals court has found.

        LOS ANGELES - A man who showed up outside the Artesia home of his former girlfriend, shouted insults and threats and then stabbed her brother to death cannot claim to have been provoked into violence, an appeals court has found.
        The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Friday ordered Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John A. Torribo to rein...

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