Commonwealth v. Shaw, S.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that cleaning up and disposing of evidence were efforts to evade detection and supported a finding of premeditation
• holding that premeditation can be shown by examining evidence about the nature of the killing, such as the number of wounds inflicted and the infliction of wounds to vital areas
• holding that evidence of prior threats may establish motive and premeditation
• concluding a prosecutor’s questioning was permissible because it “could have aided [the defendant]’s case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).