Katie Venechuk n/k/a Katie Vandewalker v. Gary A. Landherr

How courts have described this case

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• construing premeditation statute, A.R.S. § 13-1101(1), as requiring proof of reflection but allowing circumstantial evidence to constitute such proof
• in construing statutes, we “avoid constructions that would render statutes invalid or parts of them meaningless”
• “Such evidence might include, among other things, threats made by the defendant to the victim, a pattern of escalating violence between the defendant and the victim, or the acquisition of a weapon by the defendant before the killing.”
• jury instructions should not mislead or confuse the jury
• discouraging use of “instantaneous as successive thoughts” phrase

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).