MOYLAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
This appeal turns upon a close examination of a single word — the past participle "premeditated." It is a term of art which once had (and may or may not still have) legal significance. We will ask three independent questions about that significance, a negative answer to any one of which will be fatal to the appellant's present claim:
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