State v. Notaro’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Premeditated means thought over beforehand. When a person, after any deliberation, forms an intent to take human life, the killing may follow immediately after the formation of the settled purpose and it will still be premeditated. Premeditation must involve more than a moment in point of time. The law requires some time, however long or short, in which a design to kill is deliberately formed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Notaro

2. “(1) That on or about the period between the 21st day of September, 1978 and the 21st day of October, 1978, the defendant, or an accomplice, acted with intent to cause the death of Joseph Tarricone; (2) That the intent to cause the death was premeditated; (3) That Joseph Tarricone died as a result of the defendant's acts; and (4) That any of these acts occurred in the State of Washington.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Notaro

3. “Notaro, your story does not make any sense. How could your mother be strong enough to put a full grown man into a freezer by herself if he was so big that you had a difficult time pulling him out and taking him upstairs to bury,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Notaro