Like a chameleon, the common legal term "malice" must be examined in context. As the Court of Appeals recently observed in an analogous case involving qualified public official immunity, "[t]he word `malice' has been a troublesome one in the law, because it has been used in many different contexts...." Shoemaker v. Smith,
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