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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
This post contradicts itself. Provocation can be used as a defense to assault if that provocation would lead a reasonable person to assume they were in danger. Which is what I meant when I said the court would have to decide if the provocation would be enough that a reasonable person would use violence.
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It's doesn't.
Provocation is not the defence, self defence would be.
If the actions of the victim were such that Mckenna was of the reasonable belief he was in physical danger, he could punch. That's self defence, not provocation.