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Given the crucial importance in this case of the question of planning and deliberation as regards the murder, the trial judge should have summarized the relevant evidence regarding these issues in a structured and clear manner, and should have established links with the applicable legal criteria for a finding of first degree murder; because the jury was not properly equipped to decide this issue, a new trial should be ordered.
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Koneak v. R.
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