Avent v. Com.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the brutality of the attack, the number of blows, and disparity in strength between the defendant and the victim can support a reasonable inference of premeditation
• finding no error that the defendant’s “own statements to the police prohibit[ed] him from the benefit of self-defense as a matter of law”
• finding the defendant’s Miranda waiver voluntary in part because the defendant was “a man of at least average intelligence”
• resolving case on one prong when the Commonwealth conceded the other three
• “If the suspect’s will has been overborne and his capacity for self-determination critically impaired, the confession is considered involuntary and its use is unconstitutional.” (quoting Midkiff v. Commonwealth, 250 Va. 262, 268 (1995))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).