premeditation
noun
Examples of premeditation in a Sentence
USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
At his arraignment Peterson is charged with two felony counts of murder with premeditation and special circumstances.
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 5 Mar. 2024
Alonzo Mingo, 37, was charged with three counts of second-degree murder committed without premeditation but with intent, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in Anoka County, Minnesota.
—Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
Alonzo Mingo, 37, faces three counts of second degree murder committed without premeditation but with intent, according to the complaint filed in Anoka County, Minnesota, district court.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2024
Scott Arrested On April 18, 2003, police arrested Scott, who had dyed his brown hair blond, near a golf course and charged him with two felony counts of murder with premeditation and special circumstances.
—Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
Taylor Justin Schulz, 44, was charged with second-degree murder, which describes homicide with intent but not with premeditation.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
Prosecutors argued the premeditation of Crumbley’s attack was justification for a finite life sentence.
—Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
Jurors convicted Matarazzo, after a 16-day trial, of murder in the first degree with deliberate premeditation and extreme atrocity or cruelty, court records show.
—Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
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premeditation
noun
Kansas Statutes Annotated Note: The terms premeditation, malice aforethought, deliberate, and willful are often used in statutes either along with or instead of intent to describe the necessary mental state for a crime. In some jurisdictions the premeditation has to occur only moments before the act, while in others it must precede the act by an appreciable amount of time.
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