So, besides the murder charge, Pistorius might also face an additional charge of illegal firearms possession.
To make a normal murder charge stick, prosecutors need to prove the defendant intended to kill.
He was found not guilty on a third-degree murder charge in the woman's death.
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The attempted murder charge means the case can only be heard in the high court.
He could receive up to 22 years in prison on the murder charge alone.
He has been in San Quentin more than 13 years on a second-degree murder charge.
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It is also important to note the stringency of the requirements for a second-degree murder charge.
The murder charge was dropped and he was sent to Switzerland to cool off.
Prosecutors couldn't pin a murder charge on the Chicago gangster, so they nailed him for tax evasion.
He faced a third-degree-murder charge in the 2009 sedation-overdose death of a 41-year-old woman during an abortion procedure.
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Judges in the case accepted that a murder charge was unusual in relation to a stone throwing incident.
Those figures don't include when someone is arrested on a murder charge for shooting another person to death.
The accused in the Dec. 16 case could only get the death penalty if convicted on the murder charge.
Mr. Morales has a criminal history that includes a conviction on an attempted-murder charge in 1998, the official said.
The police and Crown Prosecution Service said the murder charge in relation to Miss Godden had not been dropped.
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"This was clearly with prior calculation and design, " a component of the death penalty aggravated murder charge, Baumoel said.
Dr Chishti has always denied the murder charge and says he was framed.
Angela Corey, the special prosecutor in the case, announced the second-degree-murder charge Wednesday.
He then succeeds in sticking Mrs Beard's builder boyfriend with a murder charge.
This week, Ray Lewis, an all-star American football player, had a murder charge dropped after he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice.
Stewart was being held on a capital murder charge from Bowie County, Texas, and also is charged with possession of a controlled substance.
The man facing a murder charge over the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin is launching legal action against a US TV network.
On Thursday, the Coahoma County Sheriff's Office announced that a suspect, Lawrence Reed, faces a murder charge in the death of Marco McMillian.
The murder charge is accompanied by two "special circumstances, " including killing a police officer on duty and firing a weapon from a vehicle.
If Mr. Tejada testifies as agreed against the other four, the murder charge will be dropped in exchange for an 18-year prison sentence.
While clearing Clegg of the murder charge, the judge upheld an earlier trial's guilty verdict of attempting to wound the driver of the car.
Pistorius faces the harshest bail requirements in South African law after the judge agreed with the prosecution's premeditated murder charge for the purposes of bail.
The murder charge against Mr Tobin alleges that between 24 and 29 September of last year at the church in William Street, he attacked Ms Kluk.
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The murder charge against Mr Kane includes claims that he struck his grandmother on the head with a blunt implement and applied pressure to her neck.
Mr. McMahon also disputed the murder charge in the overdose death of the woman undergoing an abortion, saying clinic workers followed the proper procedures in sedating her.
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