The judge reduced the charge to second-degree murder.

该法官将罪名降为二级谋杀罪。

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Zhu is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old Xin Yang.

朱海洋因杀害22岁的杨欣被控一级谋杀。

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Police have arrested her boyfriend, George Huguely, and charged him with first-degree murder.

警察已经逮捕了她的男友，乔治，判为一级谋杀罪。

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In countries like India, the reports tend to emphasize, to a greater degree, the situation that the person found himself in that might have driven him to commit a murder.

但在印度这样的国家，很大程度上，报道着重于，迫使凶手犯下谋杀案的,实际情况。

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In other words, as the judge said, what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder or any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does, in fact, exonerate you from any guilt.

换言之，正如法官常说的，情有可原，未必不可法外容情,当然我不认为，一句情有可原,就能为盗窃，谋杀以及其他违法行为正名，但有时，情有可原的程度,确实可能法外容情，赦免你的罪行。

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He's being held without bond on charges of first-degree murder and abuse of a dead body.

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In Florida, a conviction for second-degree murder carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

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