781 So. 2d 925 - Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2013
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State · Agee v. State · 473 So. 2d 952 - Gavin v. State · 475 So. 2d 1136 - Johnson v. State · Jackson v. State
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“With regard to the murder statute, subsections (a) and (b) have "coalesced." Indeed, [t]here is no question that the structure of the statute suggests two different kinds of murder: deliberate design/premeditated murder and depraved heart murder. The structure of the statute suggests these are mutually exclusive categories of murder. Experience belies the point. As a matter of common sense, every murder done with deliberate design to effect the death of another human being is by definition done in the commission of an act imminently dangerous to others and evincing a depraved heart, regardless of human life. Our cases have for all practical purposes coalesced the two so that Section 97-3-19(1)(b) subsumes (1)(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The supreme court has consistently held that depraved heart murder subsumes `deliberate design/premeditated murder.' Therefore, the depraved heart murder instruction did not constructively amend the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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