What is the test for having a motive for a first degree murder?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Berg, B236694 (Cal. App. 2013):
Immediately before the murder, appellant said he begged his wife to stay with him because he could not function without her. Appellant's statements to the police that he was enraged about this situation establish a motive for the murder from which the jury could rationally find the murder was deliberate and premeditated. (People v. Miranda (1987) 44 Cal.3d 57, 87 ["'[The]law does not require that a first degree murderer have a
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