State: Rejecting the appellant's primary position on appeal, we conclude - notwithstanding the very sketchy nature of the record as to the surrounding circumstances - that the singular fact that the defendant drove a butcher knife five and three-quarter inches into the victim's chest, reaching his heart and causing his death, was itself sufficient to establish the "depraved mind" element of second degree murder, of which Bonilla was convicted after a jury… [read post]

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Rehnquist in Herrera v. [read post]