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Committee adopts amendment to attempted-murder statute to address intent and transferred intent
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee adopted a subcommittee amendment to S.270 that broadens attempted murder to cover unlawful violent acts likely to cause death or great bodily injury and adds language to address transferred intent; the bill was reported favorably.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a subcommittee amendment to S.270, a bill that changes the definition of attempted murder to address gaps created by case law on intent.
Senator Adams, the subcommittee chair, explained the bill would remove the requirement that prosecutors prove a defendant had a specific intent to kill and instead make attempted murder cover “an unlawful act of a violent nature that…
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