OPINION
Justice FLAHERTY, for the Court.
On January 1, 2002—on what should have been a joyous day filled with anticipation of the new year—a lone gunman entered the Founder's Brook Motel in Portsmouth, shot and killed the hotel manager, Sanjeev Patel, in front of his eight-year-old son, and left the victim's bullet-riddled body for his wife to discover. In an effort to explain what at first appeared to be a random act of violence,
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