Index to Instructor's Notes

[The following "instructor's notes" should be used with caution. The notes do not purport to embody or reflect our class discussion. In class we may emphasize aspects of a case or a legal doctrine that are not covered in the notes. Moreover, the notes are not offered with any suggestion that they set forth everything you need to know about an assigned case and associated legal doctrines.]

An Orientation Lecture

Introduction to Homicide (our the first cases)

Schrader (premeditation & deliliberation)

First Degree Murder Jury Instructions in the O.J. Simpson case

Discussion of Premeditation & Deliberation in a Nevada Case

Midgett (premeditation/deliberation)

Forrest (premeditation/deliberation/malice)

Berry (unintentional killings tried as murder)

Malice (West Virginia cases)

Girouard (provocation/voluntary manslaughter)

Provocation (mitigation of murder to manslaughter)

Reasonable Person (Girouard and provocation as mitigation)

Casassa (extreme emotional distress)

Extreme Emotional Disturbance

Involuntary Manslaughter

Lorie McGuire case (review of homicide/manslaughter/
extreme emotional disturbance/ introduction to causation)