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Originally Posted by Lzen
Second degree murder charges?
Safe to assume first degree murder would require premeditation?
But if so, why couldn't they argue premeditation here?
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There was no intention of killing the person he killed. You could say premeditated in that he was carrying a gun, but Missouri is an open carry state, so it wasn't against the law. I don't see any priors for him, unless they happened when he was a minor.