postmurder

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adjective

happening after a murder.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivepostmurder (not comparable)
  1. not comparablehappening after a murder.

    As he does, he cautions Michael as to the postmurder parameters.

    2008, Fred Ephraim, Kelsey's Quest, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 280
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    Evidence of postmurder offences committed by a defendant against other victims are irrelevant to a determination of existence or nonexistence of aggravating factor that murder was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind or aggravated battery to the victim;

    1984, New Jersey Superior Court, New Jersey County Courts, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Superior Court, Appellate Division, Chancery Division, Law Division, and in the County Courts of the State of New Jersey, page 665

    The question in Leach was whether, in a prosecution for murder for hire, there was sufficient proof of a further conspiracy to collect life insurance to make admissible postmurder extrajudicial declarations under the coconspirator exception to the hearsay rule

    2001, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California, page 980

Origin

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