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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Just checked, and lo to my surprise, “malice of forethought†was not yet reported. (“Malice and forethought†is.)
Fine distinctions are made between voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, malice of forethought, and the various kinds of situations that fall within the complexity of our jurisprudence. ... if with malice of forethought you wantonly destroy another human being, you thereby forfeit your own right to life.
The long and short of it is that he, with malice of forethought, crashed an F1 car at race speed for a handsome financial reward,
(And many others)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I was just looking on the web to see if I had had it wrong all along, after your use of malice of forethought today. I did find a language log post here.
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‘Malice and forethought’ is also common:
It’s alleged on August 20th, 2001, you did unlawfully and with malice and forethought murder Lyubov Soltys, a human being.
edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/04/bn.13.html
Hate crimes are more damaging to our society than other crimes and are done with a degree of extreme malice and forethought …
www.floridatoday.com/.../florida-family … -for.shtml
Not that responsibility is any less in any case, just whether there was malice and forethought that will make the difference in the charges …
www.letsgokings.com/bbs/.../fires_south … 154-5.html
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