A couple years ago there was a guy in Detroit who chased a man down and killed him and in my opinion the judge gave him great leniency by sentencing him to a year and a half in prison for manslaughter. The federal charges are where he picked up some 16 years.
The judge was lenient because the “Perp’s” house had been broken into 3 times in a week while he was at work. He came home from work and caught them in the act. He chased the slowest one down and cornered him in an alley and the idiot burglar laughed in his face. The judge saw it as heat of the moment thing caused by the extreme stress of his threatened livelihood.