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• s  planned in advance
  with malice aforethought

• That is to say, Did he, with malice aforethought, shoot his partner Hap (Martin Donovan), or was it an accident a snap shot in the fog as they were stalking Finch near the .
• The prosecution argues that with malice aforethought he wrote a novel, Presumed Innocent, with the intent of willfully endangering the sleep habits and on-the-job efficiency of .
• While it's always nice to know there was no malice aforethought, infrastructure failures suggest a homeland that is less than secure.

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News & Articles

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• Aaron Hernandez murder, gun charges explained
  Under Massachusetts law, murder occurs in the first degree when it is "committed with deliberately premeditated malice aforethought, or with extreme atrocity or cruelty, or in the commission or attempted commission of a crime."
  June 27, 2013 - Philly.com

Quotes

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• Paul Martin in The Gazette (Montreal)
  There is no doubt in my mind that what Zaccardelli did was improper,Martin writes. "The only question there can be about the incident is whether it was an act of ineptitude or of malice aforethought. My own view is that no one can be that...
• Sirhan Sirhan in WorldNetDaily
  As Sirhan stated in an outburst at his trial: "I killed Robert Kennedy, willfully, premeditatedly, and with 20 years of malice aforethought."
• Vincent Bugliosi in Lew Rockwell
  The legal definition of murder, as Bugliosi tells us, is "the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought."