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What makes an offence premeditated?

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JayRed | 22:13 Thu 30th Dec 2010 | Criminal
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Just wondering what makes an offence premeditated? The sentencing guidelines for assaults make reference to whether or not the offence was premeditated, but what constitutes premeditated?
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whether it was a sudden act or you went out deliberately to commit the offence
Premeditated means deliberate, the offender set out with the deliberate intention of doing whatever it was - it wasn't just a spur of the moment act.
You`d think that someone leaving a party and grabbing 2 kitchen knives to go and help his mate in a fight and then using those knives to stab two people would be classed as premeditated?

Sadly most of the jury didn`t see it that way
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So if a person didn't set out with that intention, but instead reacted incorrectly to the situation, that isn't premeditated?
I would say that was un-premeditated.
My view is that he didn`t leave the house to slice bread with the knives therefore when the two victims got stabbed he intended to cause them harm

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