If you get mad at some chick because she was talking to some dude in a bar and decide to stalk them and run them down and kill them, that’s not premeditated if you were drunk.
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\nThat is what people think Timothy Bakdash did last year in Dinkytown, a Minneapolis neighborhood. In the larger scheme of things, it may not matter too much because he was in fact recently found guilty of 9 out of 12 counts of various wrongdoings related to his attempt to run over a bunch of people who annoyed him, and earlier today he was sentenced to 40 years behind bars. But still, the jury felt that if you are really drunk when you decide to kill someone, plan it out, go get the weapon (in this case, a car), stalk the victims, then run them over, that’s not really premeditation. Or at least, that’s the argument Bakdash’s lawyers made, and the Jury seems to have complied.<\/p>\n