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Premeditation
Premeditation, frequently referred to in the vernacular with the term "in cold blood", is contemplation of acting out an intended crime, thinking about, planning, or plotting a crime beforehand[1] and not in a moment of duress[2] or imminent danger.[3] The amount of time necessary between planning and the act to prove premeditation...cannot be arbitrarily fixed.[4] Premeditation in the context of murder describes actions which were planned prior to their being executed. The establishment of premeditation in homicide generally carries with it the inability to argue innocence by cause of insanity.[citation needed]
Don't confuse premeditation with foreseeability
Michelle Davis won in State v. Overstreet, No. 95,682 (Kan. Jan. 30, 2009), obtaining a new trial in a Sedgwick County attempted first-degree murder conviction...
Featured Download: Mannheimer on Deterrence and the Premeditation-Deliberation Formula
Michael Mannheimer (Northern Kentucky University - Salmon P. Chase College of Law) has posted Not the Crime But the Cover-Up: A Deterrence Based Rationale for the Premeditation-Deliberation Formula on SSRN--an interesting look at a long-standing problem...
Extreme Premeditation: 78-Year Old Woman Arrested for Assaulting 84-Year-Old Husband Over Affair 35 Years Ago
This will not be a POPS case. A 78-yea-old woman is being held on $70,000 bond after repeatedly beating her 84-year-old husband with a bowl, metal pipe, and carpet cleaner as well as kicking him in the groin...
















