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Blood samples were collected from affected individuals and their first-degree relatives.
Terry Nichols was convicted of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter but acquitted of first-degree murder in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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.
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.
The district attorney plans to charge him with six counts of first-degree assault, and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says "he should be prosecuted for attempted murder."