[Mickey2009]

Originally posted by Deirdre
Homicide doesn't mean murder. It could have been an accident.

There are 3 types of homicide Homicide is the killing of one person by another.

1) [Justifiable homicide], is homicide that takes place in the reasonable belief that a serious crime is being committed and in an attempt to prevent the crime.

2) [Excusable homicide] is homicide committed accidentally or with sufficient provocation while doing some lawful activity. eg. if someone is physically attacked in a parking garage and kills the attacker while defending himself, that would be excusable homicide if the attack victim did not use a dangerous weapon or kill in a cruel or unusual way.

3) [Criminal homicide] is the unlawful killing of another.

Michael Jacksons death comes under number 3
He was injected with an illegal drug that wasn't prescribe to him lawfully.