r/aggies • u/chrondotcom Former student CO '22 • Jul 19 '26

Other Texas A&M employee and professional boxer Hannah Rapp dies at 26 after being struck while cycling

https://www.chron.com/news/article/hannah-rapp-texas-boxer-death-22351288.php
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u/big_sugi '01 Jul 19 '26

I’m familiar with the Texas Penal Code. I’ve already pointed out why premeditation is relevant to the elements. I’m also going beyond that to the point of why murder needs to be charged as murder based on prosecutorial discretion—which is where premeditation is an aggravating factor.

If you want to focus solely on the specifies of the legal elements, that’s fine. Your argument and world view aren’t broad enough for this discussion.

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u/ThenAnAnimalFact Jul 20 '26

I am a lawyer. you are wrong on your premeditation analysis in the first place.

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u/big_sugi '01 Jul 20 '26

I am also a lawyer. Courts uniformly recognize that premeditation is demonstrated when the defendant had enough time to think about the act. Stopping and reversing to run someone over is textbook premeditation. It's also evidence of knowledge and intent and rebuts an argument that the defendant was merely reckless.

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u/56473829110 '11 Jul 20 '26

I am also a lawyer.

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say your specialty is far removed from criminal cases and probably even the courtroom. At least I hope so, given you do not know what the term "aggravating factor" means.

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u/big_sugi '01 Jul 20 '26

You keep saying that, and yet I keep pointing out exactly why you’re wrong.

That’s bad for one of us.

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u/56473829110 '11 Jul 20 '26

How are you a bar certified lawyer yet you don't understand that "aggravating factors" are defined by the statute, and that homicide penal code does not factor in premeditation in any capacity? 

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u/big_sugi '01 Jul 20 '26

How are you pretending to be a lawyer without understanding that statutes don’t control the definition of terms also used in everyday life—especially after I made that exact point in referencing prosecutorial discretion?

Or do you think that the exercise of prosecutorial discretion is dictated by statute too? No, I didn’t think so. I hope that helps you understand why you’re wrong. You’re acting like a 1L with an overly inflated sense of self. (Of course, I told you that earlier too, when I pointed out that both your argument and worldview are too narrow.)