But the opposite is true: after you have drunk, your decision whether or not you will drive depends on your earlier decision on whether you drink that additional beer or not.
Yes, a bit like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
Most of us think of a "premeditated" murder as being one planned hours, if not days or weeks, in advance. In the legal sense, however, it can be something you "planned" on the spur of the moment: if, for example, you're arguing with someone, go to the kitchen and get a knife, conceal it on your body just in case, and a few minutes later actually do kill your antagonist, that's "premeditation". It isn't if you just pick up whatever's handy.
Are we dealing with premeditation here? I don't know. How many people carry knives with them normally? Nobody I know. Inner city punks do, of course, walk about armed.
So: if Suzanne was killed by someone she knew, it was premeditated, if only by a little while. If she was killed by strangers, not necessarily; it could have been as suggested, a robbery gone wrong. |
