Index to Instructor's Notes

[The following "instructor's notes" should be used with the understanding that the notes do not purport to fully embody or reflect our class discussion. Moreover, the notes are not offered with any warranty that they set forth everything you need to know about the assigned cases, legal doctrines, and the arguments that are made using them.]

Introduction to Homicide: First Cases

Schrader: Premeditation & Deliberation

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

Discussion of Premeditation & Deliberation in a Nevada Case

Midgett: Premeditation and Deliberation

Forrest: Premeditation, Deliberation, and Malice

Malice | Malice2

Berry: Depraved Heart Murder

Voluntary Manslaughter & Provocation

Provocation & the Reasonable Person

Extreme Emotional Distress

Lori McGuire case

Causation

Attempts | Attempts-Chart | Attempts-West Virginia | Attempts-Legal Tests

Conspiracy | Conspiracy-West Virginia

Felony Murder | Felony Murder in West Virginia

Appellate Review in Criminal Cases

Aiding & Abetting | Jury Instructions in the Penny Gail Miller Case

Self-Defense | Self-Defense-West Virginia

Competence to Stand Trial

Diminished Capacity

Insanity Defense-New York-Tortorici case

Insanity Defense-West Virginia

Insanity Defense-Chart