premeditate

If he could premeditate that, he's a brilliant man."

He told himself that they were meant purely as a defense; he certainly did not premeditate murder.

I myself don't sit and premeditate what I do.

"It takes a tremendous amount of energy to premeditate, to stalk, to evade the police, to kill people."

"So much that you would lie and steal and premeditate tampering with evidence?"

"It's wrong to premeditate a fight," Smith said.

What if the house or what was left there had no consciousness, no ability to premeditate its actions?

I premeditate them and carry them through.

"I did not premeditate," she said.

They generally don't have the wherewithal to premeditate crimes and successfully evade apprehension.

Those who premeditate like to plan it carefully and execute it from a distance, with as little risk of discovery as possible.

"When I first interviewed him and noticed his retardation I thought that he couldn't even premeditate going to the bathroom," she said.

It was Lieutenant Rowcliff, whose murder I will not have to premeditate when I get around to it because I have already done the premeditating.

I was so filled with indignation at the sight, that I began now to premeditate the destruction of the next that I saw there, let them be who or how many soever.

However she also noted that "Madonna has always pooh-poohed the concept of reinvention and doesn't strategize or premeditate her new look in a boardroom, so this is the greatest ironic statement of all."

If evidence exists, sufficient to create a reasonable doubt as to whether the defendant because of mental illness or "defect" possessed the capacity to premeditate, deliberate or form the specific intent to kill then the state cannot convict the defendant of first degree murder.

The presiding judge, Col. Gary Holland, told the court that the critical question was whether Private Glover, amid a long weekend of barracks drinking, partying and bickering, had opportunity to "cool off" from a point of initial rage and premeditate the assault.

A Court of Appeals of California declined Yanikian's appeal and ruled that Yanikan's "ability to deliberate and to premeditate his crime was demonstrated by his own testimony of the elaborate preparations pursuant to a plan which was executed with logic and precision.

Although voluntary intoxication is not considered an excuse for a criminal act, if it can be shown that the defendant was too intoxicated to deliberate or premeditate the wrongful act, (lacking malice aforethought), a defense of diminished capacity, while not excusing the defendant from responsibility for the act, can serve to reduce the charges.