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second-degree murder
[ sek-uhnd-di-gree mur-der ]
noun
- murder1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of second-degree murder1
Example Sentences
Curry, 48, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for attempted second-degree murder.
Austin pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Fabio Sementilli’s death and got 16 years to life.
The 74-year-old Ferguson, who is free on $2-million bail after a jury deadlocked Monday 11 to 1 in favor of convicting him on a charge of second-degree murder, told NBC4 he was “relieved that there was a mistrial” but sobered by how close he had come to incarceration.
An Orange County jury deadlocked Monday on a charge of second-degree murder against a 74-year-old Superior Court judge who shot and killed his wife after hours of bickering and hard drinking.
Christopher Austin — who was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of Fabio Semetelli — told jurors that he and Robert Louis Baker stabbed the hairstylist to death after his wife, Monica Semetelli, left the door to the couple’s house unlocked.
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