What is the test for determining whether a defendant intentionally killed his victim?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Soeur, B270124 (Cal. App. 2018):
nature of the killing from which the jury could infer that the manner of killing was so particular and exacting that the defendant must have intentionally killed according to a "preconceived design" to take his victim's life in a particular way for a "reason" which the jury can reasonably infer from facts of type (1) or (2).' " (People v. Concha (2010) 182 Cal.App.4th 1072, 1084.)
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