>>My thought, too, when I read it. "
Second-degree?" Although at that moment I didn't remember exactly what it meant.
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>>However, the issue seems to be whether there is enough evidence or not to prove a first-degree murder.
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>"And then, yer onner, he slipped and fell on the knife. Ten or eleven times."
Exactly. Hard to disprove such a brillian argument. <g>
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