California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Ventura, B263137 (Cal. App. 2016):
For purposes of determining whether sufficient evidence of premeditation and deliberation exists, there is no distinction between attempted murder and completed murder. (People v. Herrera (1999) 70 Cal.App.4th 1456, 1462, fn. 8, disapproved on another ground by People v. Mesa (2012) 54 Cal.4th 191.)
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