first degree
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Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Friday that prosecutors plan to charge Lakanwal with first-degree murder over the death of National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom.
A grand jury in Bexar County, Texas, on Monday indicted 57-year-old Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez on a single felony count of first-degree murder, according to legal records reviewed by The Times.
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A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found personal trainer Maurice Jewel Taylor, 39, and Natalie Sumiko Brothwell, 48, guilty of two felony counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances and two felony counts of child abuse.
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She was later charged with first-degree murder and pleaded not guilty.
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A warrant issued June 11 by the 11th Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County shows Brown is charged with second-degree attempted murder with a firearm, a first-degree felony.
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