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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.
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.
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.
We diagnosed CVID or IgGSD in first-degree or other relatives of 26 of 195 index patients for whom HLA-A and -B haplotypes had been ascertained.
Blood samples were collected from affected individuals and their first-degree relatives.