SleuthyGal
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I will be interested to see what LE has to have arrested Brad for premeditated murder.
Hi Fran! Premeditation can be proved by the fact that killing Nancy would have taken at least 4 minutes (the average time to kill via strangulation). That alone will prove premeditation...i.e. the killer KNEW his actions would lead to death and he continued his actions anyway.
From Black's Law Dictionary: "Premeditation" means "thought of beforehand for any length of time, however short." Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed (1990), p 1180. Case law establishes that a timeframe as short as several seconds establishes premeditation. See, e.g., People v Wells, 10 Cal.2d 610, 625 (1938).