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Originally Posted by JKS
Homicide is illegal.
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Homicide is a legal term for any killing of a human being by another human being.
Homicide itself is not necessarily a crime—for instance, a justifiable killing of a suspect by the police or a killing in self-defense. Murder and manslaughter fall under the category of unlawful homicides.
Not all homicides are crimes. However, all killings of humans are included in the homicide definition. Many homicides, such as murder and manslaughter, violate criminal laws. Others, such as a killing committed in justified self-defense, are not criminal. Illegal killings range from manslaughter to murder, with multiple degrees of each representing the gravity of the crime.
https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/cri...efinition.html
It is the
context & circumstance of the homicide that assigns its legal character.
... which is the issue at hand for Kyle Rittenhouse