
Language of Murder Cases: Intentionality, Predisposition, and Voluntariness
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- Cover
- The Language of Murder Cases
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- The Language of Murder Cases
- 1 Introduction
- 1. Cases in which the perpetrator is unknown
- 2. Cases in which a perpetrator is suspected of soliciting murder
- 3. Cases in which the alleged perpetrator is in custody
- 2 Murder Laws and Terminology
- The charges of murder
- Common law
- The Model Penal Code
- Statutory law
- The U.S. federal statute on homicide
- Solicitation to murder
- Attempted murder
- Degrees of murder
- Entrapment
- Murder indictments
- The difficulty in defining legal terms
- Murder terminology in law dictionaries
- Terms related to murder before the murder took place
- Terms related to the act while the murder took place
- Terms used in the judges' instructions to juries at the ends of trials
- Standard desk dictionary definitions
- 3 Analyzing Murder Law Terminology and Evidence
- Speech events
- Schemas
- Agendas
- Speech acts
- Conversational strategies
- Smaller language units
- Sequence of the use of these linguistic tools
- The importance of starting with the speech event
- Speech events within a murder event
- The undercover solicitation to murder speech event
- The police interview speech event (with suspects and witnesses)
- The courtroom testimony speech event
- Some problems concerning intelligence gathering and intelligence analysis
- 4 Linguistic Profiling When There Is No Known Murder Suspect
- The Unabomber Case
- Gary, Indiana Women's Medical Clinic
- 5 Intentionality and Predisposition in Murder Cases
- The State of Texas v. T. Cullen Davis
- The Crown v. Mohammed Arshad
- The State of Washington v. Michael Mockovac
- 6 Voluntariness in Murder Cases
- 7 Voluntariness of Mentally Incapacitated Suspects
- The State of Florida v. Jerry Townsend
- The State of Michigan v. Benjamin Hauswirth
- The State of Alaska v. Larry Gentry
- 8 Voluntariness of Suspects Impaired by Alcohol or Drugs
- The State of Nevada v. Shelli Dewey
- The State of Florida v. Robert Alben
- The State of Ohio v. Charles Lorraine
- 9 Voluntariness of Juvenile Suspects
- The State of Louisiana v. Michael Carter
- The State of Texas v. Kevin Rogers
- 10 Voluntariness of Emotionally Distraught Suspects
- The State of Oklahoma v. Stephen Allen
- The Commonwealth of Virginia v. Beverly Monroe
- 11 Reasonable Doubt in Murder Cases
- Definition of reasonable doubt
- Summary of reasonable doubt in these fifteen cases
- Reasonable doubt about intentionality and predisposition
- Reasonable doubt about voluntariness
- Summary of how and where the linguistic tools were used in these thirteen cases
- The results of linguistic analysis in murder cases
- Issues of intentionality and predisposition
- The issue of voluntariness
- Afterword
- Cases Cited
- References
- Index
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