Death at the Windmill
Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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First Degree Murder in California
First degree murder does require malice, a forethought, that premeditation. The prosecutor was not confident he'd be able to convince a jury that there was sufficient premeditation to be proven for first degree. So he lowered the bar in order to be able to secure a murder charge. That is what my guess is.
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