What is the test for determining whether a person who killed himself was acting out of "unconsidered or rash impulse"?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Warren, A147513 (Cal. App. 2018):
duration of time as much as it is the extent of the reflection. Thoughts may follow each other with great rapidity and cold, calculated judgment may be arrived at quickly.' " ' "12 (People v. Cole (2004) 33 Cal.4th 1158, 1224 (Cole).) The evidence must be " 'supportive of an inference that the killing was the result of preexisting reflection and weighing of considerations rather than mere unconsidered or rash impulse.' " (Ibid.)
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