Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Q: solely the result of former provocation." Tex. Penal Code Ann. 19.02(a)(2). " 'Adequate cause' means cause that would commonly produce a degree of anger, rage, resentment, or terror in a person of ordinary temper, sufficient to render the mind .App.-Fort Worth 2005, no pet.) (stating that defendant's conduct led complainant to fire a gun at him and therefore complainant's conduct did not constitute adequate cause). A defendant must prove that the homicide occurred while the passion still existed and before there was reasonable opportunity for the passion to cool. See McKinney, 179 S.W.3d at 569. Anticipation of an event and preparation of a response indicates a defendant had time to deliberate over an action and did not act under the immediate influence of sudden passion. Id. at 570 (<HOLDING>). B. Legal Sufficiency In his first issue,
Holding statements: (A) holding that a defendant who had maintained his fathers gun collection at his home deserved a reduction under ussg 2k21b2 (B) holding evidence that defendant went to retrieve his gun before discovering that his tires were slashed demonstrated anticipation and preparation even before he was provoked and was not sufficient to require sudden passion instruction (C) holding evidence that defendant went home sat at his desk for some time and then retrieved his gun in preparation for fight showed deliberation and not sudden passion (D) holding a consent voluntary when a defendant who had been warned of his rights and knew police were investigating murders turned his gun over to a policeman who suggested that he could sell the gun for the defendant (E) holding direct testimony tying a defendant to a gun was not required when the gun was found in the defendants truck and when the defendant had both ammunition for the gun and a rack in which it could have been kept
A:
(C)