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    Profile: Boris Johnson  Aug 24, 2008
    For now, the leadership regards it as more thoughtless accident than malice aforethought. People are trying to make more of it than there really was,' says a source close to Cameron. (guardian.co.uk)

    Body find delays brothers' sentencing  Aug 13, 2008
    According to the law, manslaughter is killing without the "malice aforethought" necessary for murder, and carries penalties of 3 to 11 years. Contact Katy Brandenburg at kbrandenburg@uniondemocrat. (The Union Democrat)

    McCullough jury trial date set  Jul 31, 2008
    McCullough is being held on 335,000 bond for the alleged attempted murder with malice aforethought of her former employer, Nora Canez, at a ranch south of Angels Camp March 28. She has pleaded not guilty to nine, mostly felony, counts, including, in addition to the attempted murder charge: two counts of assault with a deadly weapon; making felony threats to the victim, causing Canez to fear for her safety and that of her family; threatening a second victim, Jack Goldsbury, with a butcher knife... (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)

    Teen charged in cousin’s murder  Jul 26, 2008
    Dougherty District Attorney Ken Hodges said a murder charge means that a person kills another person with malice aforethought. Murder is committed when someone unlawfully and with malice aforethought. (Albany Herald)

    Man Indicted in Lotto Winners Death  Jul 18, 2008
    The malice murder indictment charges that with malice aforethought, (he) caused the death of Murray. No date has yet been scheduled for Stanley s next court appearance. (Dublin Courier Herald, GA)

    Rumsfeld's torturous defense  Jul 3, 2008
    In criminal law, that s call malice aforethought. By Reality Check. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)

    Fleury's deal all but done  Jul 3, 2008
    Along with a few guys who have some grit -- and perhaps even a little malice aforethought -- to labor on the Penguins' third and fourth lines. But he won't have to go looking for a No. 1 goalie because the framework of a contract that will keep Marc-Andre Fleury in that role for years is largely in place. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)

    Retrial of Jared York underway  Jul 2, 2008
    On June 13, 2007, the Iowa Court of Appeals reversed the findings of the 2005 trial, claiming the trial court erred by admitting a video called "Portrait of Promise: Preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome." The state argued the video was included in the trial as a way of proving malice aforethought. York was charged with first-degree murder. (Washington Journal, IA)

    New gun law sets stage for airport showdown  Jul 1, 2008
    This lifestyle was seen abroad as an abomination, and with malice aforethought to bring this way of life crashing to the ground, Al Queda attacked the United States. If they only knew the far-reaching effects of their successes: like today's actions of Ben DeCosta and Shirley Franklin. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)

    Attorney Who Lost Employment Bias Case Sees Libel Case Against 2nd Circuit Judge Thrown Out  Jun 17, 2008
    For his part, Katzmann "acted with malice aforethought to put the Federal Court 'seal of approval' on the false statements One Beacon submitted knowing that in Publishing his 'conclusions' Katzmann encouraged the repetition of false libel per se statements, giving free reign to all the Libel Per Se Statements made by One Beacon employees.". McHenry's complaint extended to 22 pages, with more than a dozen other claims against Katzmann, all arising from his opinion. (Law.com)

    Four suspects arraigned  Jun 12, 2008
    All four were charged with the same felony counts, but with variations in their use of a deadly weapon: first-degree murder with malice aforethought on each of the victims; felony assault with a deadly weapon; and special allegations that each suspect used a specific deadly weapon in committing the crimes. For the complete story, see Friday s print edition of the Calaveras Enterprise or our e-Edition. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)

    Weber released on bond in shooting  Jun 3, 2008
    The solicitor did explain that assault and battery with intent to kill describes doing, violent injury to another with malice aforethought. Violent injury just means unlawful touching: a fist, a knife, a bullet, Pascoe said. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)

    Suspect has killed before, records reveal  May 22, 2008
    County Attorney Stephen Holmes said the difference between the first- and second-degree murder charges lies largely in intent and malice aforethought, which, given that the stabbing allegedly sprung from a fight between two individuals who'd reportedly been drinking, could be difficult to prove in court. However, Holmes said, investigation into the matter is continuing and the charges against Smith could change based on several factors, including his criminal history. (Mid Iowa Enterprise, IA)

    Angels Camp woman accused of attempted murder  May 2, 2008
    Tuesday's preliminary hearing brought the most serious amended charges yet from the prosecuting office-attempted second-degree murder with malice aforethought and special allegations of personal infliction of great bodily injury. Canez owns Now and Then Treasures, an antique store in Angels Camp, where McCullough also worked. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)

    The Monday Inside Scoop  Apr 15, 2008
    "Gazette-TimesOnce again a new era has dawned on the Oregon State University's men's basketball team. Craig Robinson has been chosen as the new head coach. I'm sure there are those happy with the hire and those who aren't. Some things never change.Although I'm not a Beavers fan, I watched this program's success under Ralph Miller, and its terrible lows since. Some still talk about those glory days. Those discussions, however, are often laced with bitterness about how this once-proud program has... (Oregon Sports -- Rivals.com)

    As I See It: Don’t expect b-ball miracle  Apr 14, 2008
    So, without any malice aforethought whatsoever, then here s nothing but a goodnatured look at which of the following four scenarios will most likely occur for Beaver Nation over the next five years. If the urge should strike, it s OK to laugh. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)

    5Top: Our favorite TV bad girls  Mar 18, 2008
    With malice aforethought, she moved into a cottage on ex-husband Blakes estate, married his business rival Cecil Colby as he lay dying (from, it should be noted, a heart attack brought on by sleeping with Alexis), and devoted her life to destroying Blake. If that meant manipulating her own children or engaging in catfight after catfight with poor, overmatched second wife Krystle, then a womans simply gotta do what a womans gotta do. (MSNBC -- News)

    Letters to the Editor - 2/24/2008 (75)  Feb 24, 2008
    In mass hysteria's false sense of safety, insane malice aforethought [could be] used against innocent victims. Of course, everything is subject to argument, through self-fulfilling priorities of survival's rights of self-protection, albeit, blind-sighted by the depth of ultimate surprise, disguised behind dark-sided villainy, festering in weak-hearted attainment, turned into unconscionable acts of violence taking lives, which takes the constitutional resolution revitalized in modern society for... (North County Times)

    Doctor was city’s first murder victim 02-24-2008  Feb 24, 2008
    The doctor died three days later and, on Aug. 24, the grand jury charged Peters with murder with malice aforethought and bound him over for trial. According to the Hale County History Quarterly account, the Peters murder trial began Aug. 25, but ended three days later when the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict. (Plainview Daily Herald, TX)

    Blair convicted in murder of Hill  Feb 21, 2008
    The prosecution's case was capped by Brown, who argued that although Blair may not have pulled the trigger, he had still demonstrated malice aforethought and, by his own confession, had participated in the killing. "But for Dan Blair, Shane Hill would still be alive," Brown said. (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)

    How about a better use for $150 billion?  Jan 22, 2008
    Editor - It is unspeakable that telecom agencies, who deliberately and with malice aforethought, did spy on U.S. citizens. It is equally unspeakable that the Bush White House wants to ensure they have immunity from prosecution by the very citizens he has betrayed by his spying. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)

    Charges filed in death of 15-year-old  Jan 19, 2008
    In the trial information, Woodbury County Attorney Patrick "PJ" Jennings charged Hettinger of killing Raina "with malice aforethought" and then hiding the body with the intent to conceal the crime. If convicted as charged, Hettinger would face prison sentences of 50 years for second-degree murder, a class B felony, and five years for abuse of a corpse, a class D felony. (Sioux City Journal, IO)

    Goose cooked with high heat  Jan 10, 2008
    The Goose was malice aforethought with a bushy mustache, a merciless scowl and a ferocious fastball, a stylistic throwback to a baseball era when hitters crowded the plate at their own peril. He didn't want to pitch around you, Jerry Coleman said yesterday. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)

    Arraignment delayed in alleged DUI case  Jan 5, 2008
    In the California Penal Code, murder is defined as the unlawful killing of a human being, or fetus, with malice aforethought. Cmdr. (Santa Maria Times)

    Vt. town's activists want to arrest Bush for war crimes  Dec 29, 2007
    Except perhaps for those who believe the earth is flat (admittedly no small number), I think most of us know that the President and Vice President have repeatedly and with malice aforethought broken the law, lied to the Congress and the general public, and generally done a criminally disastrous job of representing the country's interests both at home and abroad. Kudos to Vermont. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)

    Letters, Dec. 21: Get past provincial view of the world  Dec 24, 2007
    Likewise, how can jail only be adequate and just punishment for one who with malice aforethought cruelly kills another. It is a matter of equality and justice. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)

    NJ'S EXECUTION ERROR  Dec 12, 2007
    In many cases, the state's murderers are acting with malice aforethought against anyone who gets in their way - not just other thugs but ordinary citizens, too. Earlier this year, for instance, the press reported that threats against witnesses' lives had prompted the Essex County prosecutor to stop trying murder cases in which there was only one eyewitness. (New York Post -- Opinions)

    Spreading wings, Patriots' Gaffney tries to maintain stride  Dec 4, 2007
    But Gaffney said there was neither malice aforethought nor vindictiveness in his action in the Patriots' 31-28 victory. "I got in the end zone," Gaffney said of his 19-yard TD reception, which gave the Patriots a 24-21 lead on their final play of the first half. (Boston Globe)

    Helicopter Parenting Turns Deadly  Dec 1, 2007
    I absolutely do not understand how using the internet to mask your identity and commit a crime, with malice aforethought, can go unpunished. If she had used the US mail and sent letters, she would be in jail right now. (New York Times)

    Was the death of Mama Cat murder most foul?  Dec 1, 2007
    The prosecution argued that Mama Cat belonged to John Newland, and therefore that Stevenson had with malice aforethought shot a domestic animal. The statute allowed for two years in prison. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)

    71 comments  Nov 30, 2007
    Murder is the intentional killing, with malice aforethought, of a person. Abortion is not murder because an embryo or a fetus is not a person. (Human Events Online)

    Maps old and new: Charting the many paths from here to there  Nov 28, 2007
    Virga, a veteran picture editor, sees malice aforethought in ornate maps from the age of discovery and reads the routes to Asia and Africa as political texts. Mapmakers, he points out (somewhat too insistently), offer a self-interested vision of the world packaged as a neutral document. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    A man bedevilled by God  Nov 20, 2007
    And he has tried mightily to shed his enduring belief in a fickle, vengeful God who intervenes in human affairs with malice aforethought. But as he explains in his searing and hysterical new memoir, Foreskin's Lament (Penguin), nothing avails. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    Legal analysts on whether son's girlfriend can sue Dog Chapman for slanderous remarks  Nov 13, 2007
    COLWIN: I think there might -- there is an argument, if I'm the defense attorney, I would say, "Wait a minute. Was she involved? Was she involved in the recording? Was she... COLMES: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. (CROSSTALK) COLWIN: It is the questions that have to be answered. COLMES: If it can't be determined if was she involved in the release of this tape, Lis, does that affect this case? WIEHL: Absolutely. But if she was transferred from a private figure to a public figure. COLMES: By her... (Fox News)

    Arthur Bremer, Who Shot Wallace, Is Freed  Nov 10, 2007
    This miscarriage was attributable to a jury that failed to find the killings to have been with premeditation or malice aforethought, and by a sentencing law (since amended) which made the next lower crime, manslaughter, punishable by an 8 year max term (16 for 2 hits), with ruffles for using a firearm. White had rejected use of the insanity defense. (New York Times)

    Man arrested for murder, beating UN player  Nov 1, 2007
    SI.com - NCAA Basketball - Nevada player's accuser also arrested for triple murder - Wednesday October 31, 2007 8:14PM. Man, 19, arrested in triple homicide. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NCAA Basketball)

    Murder charges filed in Nevada party deaths  Nov 1, 2007
    Man charged with murder; two charged with assault, coercion. Updated: November 1, 2007, 12:10 AM ET. (ESPN -- College Basketball)

    China to the rescue as US wobbles  Oct 23, 2007
    Already the Chinese are withdrawing from the purchase of US securities but the actions are showing malice aforethought. Chinese actions to now have been largely defensive but, with the US sharemarket so vulnerable, hardliners could have struck. (The Age, Australia -- Business)

    Boyle: Interview on Neo-Cons  Oct 17, 2007
    "Murder" means the intentional killing of a human being with malice aforethought. . (Zmag.org)

    Dave Molinari On The Penguins -- Georges Laraque is still the champ  Oct 14, 2007
    He's 210 pounds of muscle and malice aforethought, and there's more fat on a steel I-beam than on his 6-foot-2 frame. So it did not seem like a complete mismatch when, at the end of practice a few days ago, he and teammate Georges Laraque squared off in a mock fight. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)

    Letters, Sept. 21: Our best presidents were men of faith  Sep 26, 2007
    Abortion in the Bible is covered as murder (civil-taking a life with malice aforethought). A person s spirit/soul enters the fetus on conception. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)

    Judge Fidler may be fiddling too much  Sep 21, 2007
    " If members decided to convict, he said, they had to conclude that he had acted with "malice aforethought. " 1 Angels beat Seattle, 9-5, they can clinch American Leage West with a win Friday night. | | Text More California News - - - Copyright 2007 Los Angeles Times Partners. (Los Angeles Times)

    Spector judges giveshypothetical scenarios  Sep 21, 2007
    The judge also told jurors that to convict, the act by the defendant must be more than drawing or exhibiting a firearm in the presence of Lana Clarkson in a rude, angry or threatening manner and that he had to have had a state of mind called malice aforethought, which does not require hatred or ill-will toward the victim, or deliberation. Defense attorney Bradley Brunon objected during the legal debate, saying the judge was drafting an instruction that offered the jury numerous... (MSNBC -- News)

    Andy Robinson: Inside the 2007 Rugby World Cup  Sep 14, 2007
    It seems the organisers are cracking down on offences they deem to have had some malice aforethought about them. I'm not sure that Emerick, who dropped Olly Barkley from on high in a tackle, or Vickery, who tripped the same American player in open field, planned their actions. (Independent)

    49ers hope Davis can channel his emotions  Sep 9, 2007
    It was nothing more than good-natured needling, Davis said, no malice aforethought. Davis denied the incident with Allen led him to temper his emotions the remainder of training camp. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Rocha found guilty  Aug 30, 2007
    He was found guilty of murder in the first degree, with malice aforethought, and of the special allegation of committing the murder for the benefit or at the direction of. or in association with the Nortenos, a criminal street gang. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)

    Panic on Wall Street (88)  Aug 18, 2007
    Yet Joe Homeowner turned his Beige Castle in the burbs into a wallet again and again, cashing out for the 64" plasma, the new boobs for wifey, and that new deck with the turbo-charged gas grill. Oh, but then the ARM loan came due...and home values quit elevating like LeBron James...and we owe WHAT? And our house is worth WHAT? Oh dear. Oh my dear me. The media bought and sold the real estate/Wall Street love affair just as it bought and sold the "new economic rules" of the dotcom boom, when... (Salon)

    We've Come Undone  Aug 10, 2007
    While it's always nice to know there was no malice aforethought, infrastructure failures suggest a homeland that is less than secure. How did this happen. (Time.com)

    Review: Zastrozzi - The Master of Discipline  Jul 26, 2007
    Soriano spits words at the perfect pitch, with plenty of malice aforethought, and never strays from the play's conceit that all this Guinness-coloured cheesiness must be played straight. Coming a close second, Jon Lachlan Stewart's Verezzi is a giggling twit with a wide-eyed inability to see anything resembling the truth. (Vancouver Sun)

    Winona Finally Talks Shop(lifting)  Jul 19, 2007
    What Whine-ona Ryder did was intentional and on purpose with Malice Aforethought. JamesConwell on 07/18/2007 11:28AM. (E! Online)

    Details emerge in baby’s death  Jun 23, 2007
    In the charge description, the judge said Lopez-Meza did attempt to perpetrate an aggravated battery on a child and with malice aforethought, (did) kill and murder (the infant) by shaking and/or striking the victim, causing blunt force traumatic injury to the head and/or a vertebrae fracture thereby causing the (infant s) death. The judge set Lopez-Meza s preliminary hearing for 8:30 a.m. July 5 at the Canyon County courthouse. (Idaho Press-Tribune)

    State: Hill's wife helped plan his murder / Blair, Moss both had histories of convictions for non-violent crimes  Jun 7, 2007
    "... Jessica K. Hill, with malice aforethought, did willfully, deliberately and with premeditation plan and participate in the shooting death of Michael Shane Hill at a farm in Boone County, Iowa, by conspiring with Daniel Alan Blair and Aron Michael Moss to kill Michael Shane Hill," the affidavit reads. "Jessica Hill communicated a plan which resulted in Blair and Moss using a firearm to shoot and kill Michael Shane Hill.". (Boone Today, IA)

    Arrest made in 1999 suitcase baby death  May 18, 2007
    It is alleged that Deegan "with malice aforethought, did unlawfully kill an infant child, willfully, deliberately, maliciously, and with premeditation," according to a complaint filed Thursday. An infant boy, believed to be younger than 2 weeks old at the time of his death, was found dead inside a soft-sided lavender bag on Nov. 4, 1999. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)

    BERKELEYAccounts clash on Friday's row with bikes, van  May 16, 2007
    BERKELEY / Accounts clash on Friday's row with bikes, van / Driver and riders accuse each other of provoking the fight. " Critical Mass organizer Jason Meggs, 38, who filmed part of the incident on his digital camera, called Head's accusation "outrageously ridiculous. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    66 Workers at Agency Had Records, Inquiry Finds  May 4, 2007
    Department of Public Safety records say Mr. Crawley was convicted of ;murder with malice aforethought; in 1971, sentenced to 15 years and released in 1981. A corrections officer at the Ron Jackson facility and a maintenance technician at the West Texas State School had convictions for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, Mr. Hurley said. (Foster's Daily Democrat)

    'Support' syntactics  Apr 26, 2007
    Early on in the Iraq war I watched in disbelief as Democrats, one by one, then group by group, with malice aforethought, fraudulently accused President Bush of something they knew to be false: that he deceived the nation about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to start a war he had been predetermined to launch since before he was conceived. His reasons were said to be (a) he wanted revenge against Saddam for trying to have his father killed, (b) he wanted Iraq's oil for the United States,... (Washington Times, DC)

    It Depends What the Meaning of "Support" Is  Apr 24, 2007
    Early on in the Iraq war I watched in disbelief as Democrats, one by one, then group by group, with malice aforethought, fraudulently accused President Bush of something they knew to be false: that he deceived the nation about Iraqi WMD to start a war he had been predetermined to launch since before he was conceived because a) he wanted revenge against Saddam for his father, b) he wanted Iraq's oil for the United States, c) he wanted Iraq's oil for Dick Cheney or d) he is a neoconservative... (Townhall.com)

    Second trial in Milo slaying under way  Apr 20, 2007
    The defense argued that Heemstra shot Lyon in self-defense, and that is was not with malice aforethought. "We know what premeditation is, we know what planning is. This is not that situation," defense attorney Joseph Hrvol said Wednesday. (Muscatine Journal, IO)

    Letter: Iraqi war taking heavy toll in lost lives, money  Apr 18, 2007
    FYI wrote on April 17, 2007 10:04 PM:"Murder is defined as "illegal killing with malice aforethought. " Abortion fails this definition for two reasons. First, abortion is not illegal, and second, there is no evidence to suggest that expecting mothers feel malice towards their own flesh and blood. Most Christians know only one Biblical reason to oppose abortion, and that is the obvious one, "Thou shalt not kill. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)

    Dem Underachievers  Apr 14, 2007
    Would Mr. Reid lead us astray, even create a false impression with malice aforethought. And by the way, whose calendar is he using. (Human Events Online)

    Babcock asks for new trial  Apr 10, 2007
    One of the elements of second-degree murder is that the defendant must act with malice aforethought. Ableidinger contended in her motion that no evidence presented during the five-day trial showed Babcock had a deliberate intent to injure Becker. (Daily Iowan, IA)

    EDITORIAL: An international kidnapping  Mar 30, 2007
    But this incident was clearly manufactured with malice aforethought. Analysts in London say the swiftness and coordination of the capture suggest a premeditated attack -- an international kidnapping, pure and simple. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Opinion)

    Engelhardt: Demobilizing Amerrica  Mar 26, 2007
    And yes, the political system has increasingly been subcontracted out, with malice aforethought, to thieves, looters, cronies, and absolute dopes. Little wonder that Americans, living through the Age of Enron, scanning the horizon from Iraq to New Orleans to Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and watching Halliburton head for Dubai, generally believe their system no longer works; that those high-school civics texts are a raging joke (that, in fact, fierce joking, la Jon Stewart, is the only... (Zmag.org)

    Ventre: Kobe frustrated, not dirty  Mar 9, 2007
    They did not occur out of anger or malice aforethought. The league seems now to consider any blow to the face to warrant a one-game suspension. (MSNBC -- Sports)

    The Day The Spinning Stopped  Mar 7, 2007
    And they did so not only by challenging his opinions in the public marketplace, where the fight might have been fair, but by secretly and with malice aforethought outing his wife as a covert CIA agent. It was a dirty business that was uncovered long before the gavel came down to begin the Libby proceedings. (CBS News)

    Endorsing Senator FrankensteinWhat elegance, what wit! We can't wait for this campaign.  Feb 20, 2007
    We do so with malice aforethought out of the sheer pleasure we d get out of watching Hillary Clinton squirm out of campaign appearances with him. And we will be the first to celebrate his loss. (Human Events Online)

    Marygrove Theatre Hosts 'Malice Aforethought: The Sweet Trials' February 2-18; Dinner Theatre February 17  Jan 23, 2007
    DETROIT, Jan. 23, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- The Marygrove College Theatre will host the UDM Theatre Company production of ``Malice Aforethought: The Sweet Trials,'' February 2-18 ... Malice Aforethought: The Sweet Trials'' runs Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 p.m. Price for general admission is $20; senior citizen discount is $16; University of Detroit Mercy/Marygrove Students $5; and all others with student identification $9. (Primezone Releases)

    DON'T STOP THE SQUABBLES  Jan 12, 2007
    The best feuds are nurtured over a lifetime, delivered in the form of steel barbs, sharpened with malice aforethought. Revenge should be served not only cold, but with the most elaborate garnish. (TimesOnline)


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