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Mullaney v. Wilbur, No. 74-13 (U.S. Supreme Court) (421 U.S. 684; 95 S.Ct. 1881) (June 9, 1975) (Justice Powell)

In this case the Supreme Court invalidated a Maine statute that presumed that a defendant who acted with an intent to kill possessed the "malice aforethought" necessary to constitute the State's murder offense (and therefore was subject to that crime's associated punishment of life imprisonment). The statute placed the burden ...

 

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