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- 3. Conscious objective to cause death or substantial certainty death will result.
- 5. Mental state for common law murder: intent to kill, serious-bodily-harm intent, depraved heart, or felony murder.
- 8. Careful consideration of the killing while in a clear state of mind.
- 9. Killing caused by criminal negligence under the MPC.
- 11. Involuntary manslaughter during an unlawful act that is not an inherently dangerous felony.
- 12. Felony type that poses a danger to human life, such as burglary, arson, rape, robbery, or kidnapping.
- 15. Killing based on unreasonable fear of imminent harm or disproportionate deadly force.
- 16. Intentional killing without premeditation, serious-bodily-harm killing, or depraved-heart murder.
- 18. Planning the killing in advance.
- 20. Extreme recklessness showing a complete lack of care for human life.
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- 1. Killing after severe provocation before a reasonable person would cool off.
- 2. Unintentional killing caused recklessly or negligently, or during a non-dangerous unlawful act.
- 4. Felony-murder rule counting any homicide that naturally results from the felony.
- 6. Intentional killing with premeditation and deliberation, or killing during an inherently dangerous felony.
- 7. Killing during commission or attempted commission of an inherently dangerous felony.
- 10. MPC murder category for killings showing extreme indifference to human life.
- 13. Killing in heat of passion or from imperfect self-defense.
- 14. Felony-murder rule counting killings committed or caused by the defendant or an accomplice.
- 17. MPC crime covering reckless killings and killings under extreme mental or emotional disturbance.
- 19. Unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.
