S600 - Britny's Law: Intimate Partner Violence Homicide. (SL 2017-94)

Overview: S.L. 2017-94 creates a rebuttable presumption of premeditation, elevating a homicide to a first degree murder, if there is malice and the defendant has a certain prior conviction involving the same victim. This act becomes effective December 1, 2017, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.