What is the test for premeditation in a murder case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Burton, B225489 (Cal. App. 2012):
color, evidences the most cold-blooded, most calculated, most culpable, kind of premeditation and deliberation." (People v. Rand (1995) 37 Cal.App.4th 999, 1001 [evidence that the defendant deliberately aimed at the victim believing he was a rival gang member was sufficient to support premeditation finding].)
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