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PREMEDITATION [6 records]

Record 1 2012-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
CONT

Why commit aggravated homicide(murder) ?... If we analyze this from the regulatory point of view of the Federal Penal Code, we would be facing the assumption of a person who, after having thought about it, kills another person [who] has no chance to engage in self-defense, using for that end, harmful substances or torture. This would be created as murder, characterized by premeditation, and unfair advantage(Articles 315 and 316 of the Federal Penal Code). Therefore, the use of the death penalty is precisely created as aggravated homicide as set forth in the Federal Penal Code, which would be called murder in other countries.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
CONT

Le parquet a ouvert une information judiciaire, notamment pour homicide aggravé, tentative d'homicide, association de malfaiteurs en relation avec une entreprise terroriste, séquestration, vols avec arme.

CONT

[...] vingt-trois autres membres du Sentier lumineux comparaîtront ainsi pour «terrorisme aggravé, homicide qualifié et délits au préjudice de l’État» [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
CONT

Artículo 320. Al responsable de un homicidio calificado se le impondrán de treinta a sesenta años de prisión.

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Record 2 2011-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
CONT

Why commit aggravated homicide(murder) ?... If we analyze this from the regulatory point of view of the Federal Penal Code, we would be facing the assumption of a person who, after having thought about it, kills another person [who] has no chance to engage in self-defense, using for that end, harmful substances or torture. This would be created as murder, characterized by premeditation, and unfair advantage(Articles 315 and 316 of the Federal Penal Code). Therefore, the use of the death penalty is precisely created as aggravated homicide as set forth in the Federal Penal Code, which would be called murder in other countries.

CONT

Premeditation cases are the ones where there is advantage taken from the situation of the helplessness of the victim, when the execution is sudden, and unexpected, by surprise, or when it happens via stalking, betting, a trap, or ambush.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
OBS

Selon le Trésor de la Langue française informatisé, «avantage» veut dire «supériorité qu'une personne a sur une autre».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho penal
CONT

Artículo 316. Se entiende que hay ventaja: I. Cuando el delincuente es superior en fuerza física al ofendido y éste no se halla armado; II. Cuando es superior por las armas que emplea, por su mayor destreza en el manejo de ellas o por el número de los que lo acompañan; III. Cuando se vale de algún medio que debilita la defensa del ofendido, y IV. Cuando éste se halla inerme o caído y aquél armado o de pie.

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Record 3 2010-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
DEF

All murder that is not first degree murder ...

CONT

Second-degree murder is the crime of killing with the intention of killing but without deliberation or premeditation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
DEF

Les meurtres qui n'appartiennent pas à la catégorie des meurtres au premier degré [...].

CONT

Étant donné que M. Haroun a admis avoir tué sa femme, le jury avait le choix entre un verdict de meurtre au second degré et un verdict d'homicide involontaire coupable.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Infracciones y crímenes
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Record 4 2009-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
  • Criminology
DEF

A criminal act that occurs suddenly and without premeditation in response to an unforeseen stimulus.

CONT

A husband who discovers his wife in bed with another man and shoots him could be said to have committed an affectively sponteneous crime.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
  • Criminologie
CONT

Pour le ministère public, cela fait beaucoup d'éléments incitant à croire à une préméditation plutôt qu'à un crime spontané.

Spanish

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Record 5 2006-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Penal Law
DEF

Conscious consideration and planning that preceeds some act (such as committing a crime).

CONT

The mens rea for murder is defined as malice aforethought, which has come to mean either an intention to kill or an intention to cause grievous bodily harm.

CONT

The mental element in the offence of murder. The prosecution must prove malice aforethought solely by proof either intended to kill another person or that he intended to cause that person really serious harm.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit pénal
DEF

Préparation intentionnelle et réfléchie d'un acte criminel.

CONT

Le meurtre au premier degré est celui qui est commis avec préméditation et de propos délibéré.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derecho penal
OBS

intención dolosa y premeditación: Expresiones reproducidas del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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Record 6 2005-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
  • Penal Law
OBS

Malice aforethought means any one or more of the following states of mind ... (a)An intention to cause the death of, or grievous bodily harm to, any person, whether such person is the person actually killed or not; (b)knowledge that the act which causes death will probably cause the death of, or grievous bodily harm to, some person, whether such person is the person actually killed or not, although such knowledge is accompanied by indifference whether death or grievous bodily harm is caused or not ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
  • Droit pénal
CONT

Manal purge une peine de 50 mois. Officiellement, elle a été accusée de tentative de meurtre avec préméditation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fraseología de los lenguajes especializados
  • Derecho penal
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