State v. Lacquey

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• affirming the denial of a motion for mistrial where testimony of witness who failed to appear at trial was cumulative
• “to show premeditation and deliberation, the State must prove that the defendant made a decision to kill prior to the act of killing”
• the “random, violent and indiscriminate attack upon the victim, rather than the deliberate infliction of injuries calculated to result in death ____” could support a verdict of second degree murder but not first degree.
• defendant’s tape-recorded admission, the testimony of the pathologist, and the photographs of the deceased all suggested a random, violent and indiscriminate attack upon the victim, rather than the deliberate infliction of injuries calculated to result in death
• defendant's tape-recorded admission, the testimony of the pathologist, and the photographs of the deceased all suggested a random, violent and indiscriminate attack upon the victim, rather than the deliberate infliction of injuries calculated to result in death

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