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A subset of this work is summarized in Figure 1. Of a large set of pre- and antenatal risk factors [6], having a first-degree relative with schizophrenia is associated with an odds ratio of almost ten.
Legal analysts' spin: The jury's rejection of first-degree murder shows they were sympathetic to McKinney . Gay activists' spin: The judge's rejection of "gay panic" means that hate crimes won't be excused .
If the fetus is a person under the 14 th Amendment, an abortion must be treated exactly like the premeditated killing of an adult--that is, like first-degree murder.
That's first-degree murder."
The papers report that in filing a first-degree murder case against Kevorkian, the county prosecutor said that the consent of the dying man was no legal defense.