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To: ConservativeMind

But it isn’t actually premeditated murder. That is actually and specifically something else entirely.

Where is the malicious intent and malice aforethought? Where is the specific planning to do mortal harm to another person?

Your charge lacks those necessary legal elements.


54 posted on 01/12/2014 1:04:05 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: chris37

When one voluntarily removes the capacity for rational thought, whatever comes after that must be premeditated. If I have a loaded gun in my possession and I take a recreational drug that causes me to do something stupid, those stupid actions were done with intent, because I wouldn’t have done them if not on that drug—i.e. I (under the influence) chose to do them.

That’s really all there is to it. I can’t even claim something was a accident when I remove my own ability to understand what accidents might yet happen.


59 posted on 01/12/2014 1:15:40 PM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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