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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.
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."
In family studies, first-degree relatives of individuals with Alzheimer disease are at more than double the risk of Alzheimer disease compared to those with no affected relatives [2,3].
Similarly, the Times editorial on the Nichols decision ably frames the puzzle: "At first blush it seems contradictory to find that Mr. Nichols was guilty of conspiring in the bombing, a crime that seems to have required premeditation, but then not to find him guilty of first-degree, or premeditated, murder.