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Background: This was inspired by a case in my hometown. A man was convicted of manslaughter and assault and sentenced to 3 years for a single punch. The victim later died at home. The initial assault was over a sports jersey. And from my research it's not the first case like this. I've also looked up and bookmarked the various laws.
Scenario: Character A finds Character B (in a room with no other witnesses) with his girlfriend ( of A,) attempting to rape her. She is drunk or otherwise unable to consent. A pulls him off and punches him and removes her from the situation. Later B dies from the injury and A is arrested. A tells law enforcement B was trying to rape her, which would fall under the self-defense in defense of another, but no reliable witnesses to the actual attempted rape only for the assault, she has no clear memory of it, and for the sake of the story it was attempted rape so evidence is going to limited.
My question is what would likely happen after this? What I want to happen is for the character A to plead guilty for various reasons. But what I want and what is actually based in reality can be two different things.