[Opinion certified for partial publication.
In the published portion of the opinion, we address the impact of the 1981 changes to the Penal Code, sections 28, 29, 188, and 189, that abolished the defense of diminished capacity and refined the concepts of "express malice" and "deliberate and premeditated."
The unpublished portion of the opinion illustrates the...
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