In UK Law, manslaughter is a partial defence for murder.

The most important difference between them is that, for manslaughter, there is no mandatory life sentence, unlike for murder.

It's more complicated than this, but basically, where a person kills another, he is not to be convicted of murder if his acts and omissions in killing resulted from his loss of self-control. And loss of self control cannot be premeditated, there cannot be a considered desire for revenge.

So if you have a bat in your car, it would suggest you premeditated the murder and you could get a life sentence if you can't use manslaughter (loss of control) as a partial defence. Whereas if there's a glove, you can say it was for baseball and you're more likely to get off without a life sentence.

Hope this makes sense and helps a little,

Your FJ Lawyer

It's actually a lot more simple than that (though you were correct). A baseball bat is actually considered a lethal weapon. They treat it the same way as an unregistered firearm in your trunk- except the registration in this case would be a baseball glove.

TL;DR the baseball glove gives you apt excuse for having a baseball bat. You ain't gotta explain **** , you play baseball.

(I have a baseball bat in my trunk and have had a cop explain this to me)

Where I said 'It's more complicated than this', it was because there are several other tests that one must be put through in deciding if it's manslaughter. That little paragraph sums up pages and pages of legislation on the topic.

And I was giving it context.

Yeah dude I understand. You were putting it in a scenario where there would evidence against you in the event one might end another's life. I was just putting into a more everyday context. Like if a cop was searching your trunk, for example.

Love you, Pookie. Never meant to steal yo thunda

Bruh thought you were mugging me off haha
Insecure law student

My bad bro <3

Wait, you get a life sentence for murder?

Well. Severeness of murder is determined by whether you planned it or if it was in the heat of the moment or even accidental.

If you carry around both bat and the glove, you can just say you play baseball for fun and just happened to have a bat, which you in the heat of the moment, of course, used as the weapon. If you have only a bat, you'll have a hard time proving that you weren't carrying it with the intent to kill that someone, which would make your crime a lot worse.

I'm not good with law or explaining, please notify if there was something I missed out.

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actually, both mens rea and actus rea can be qualified by taking a baseball bat out of your car

Who the **** do you think you are, coming to my comment and throwing around the juridical terminology like you're some big shot huh?

Not to mention that if you are attacked outside your car it is much easier to make a self-defense claim if it is apparent that the baseball bat was not kept in the car as a weapon.

You only gotta worry about that in your commie blue states. Here in MS, you can carry a bat as a weapon of self defense and just be open and honest about it. I was pulled over by a state trooper recently and he asked if I had any weapons. I told him there was a pistol in my door, a bat in the back seat and a knife in the glove box; all for self defense. He asked me to take out my gun, and we just talked about how Ruger is a great brand and stuff. No ticket even. I love freedom so much

I was never a big fan of ruger, but I built a 1911 off the frame of one. And it still stands as the most reliable 1911 I've built, only time it didn't chamber was when I wasn't paying attention and limp wristed it.

hawt

Green grips, that's the newest picture I have of it

thats nice man

Yep, green grips

That's what's nice about 1911, everything is basically standard. Some parts take a tiny bit of filing just to make them run as smooth as possible, but that's usually just extra metal from manufacturing ( some people want a nice 1911 built for 1000$ , so they get cheap parts)

Bottom, 1911, ati to start, replaced everything I could with Wilson parts, the AR is a bushmaster but has a new carrier and upgraded buffer tube and break

Whoops, I didn't put the brake on yet in that pic.

God bless America

yeah, that seems pretty much correct

How can you say you were going to play baseball without the ball

Still, you say you're going out to play some ball but now you have to find someone else to cover for you saying he was going to play. With the ball you could say, "I was going to the park to see if anyone there wanted to play some ball" or something.