Mr Heart Case

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Imagine an elderly man inviting someone into his home to take care of him, but then his caretaker surprisingly creates a scheme that will get rid of him because of his eye. The old man trusted him with his life, and suddenly he takes it from him. The man I am describing is Mr. Heart, who is guilty of committing first degree murder. He was the victim’s caretaker for a long enough duration of time for them to develop a father-son relationship with one another, yet he killed him in the end. Members of the jury, after going over the evidence against Mr. Heart in the State of New Jersey vs. Mr. Heart case, it is as clear as day that he should be convicted of first degree murder, because the facts show proof of premeditation, deliberation, and malice. …show more content…

Heart premeditating the murder, he also deliberately committed the crime. Everything he did was for a purpose, and he did everything he could to get him to his goal. His testimony states, “Upon the eighth night I was more cautious in opening the door” (Poe 2). Mr. Heart stalked the victim for eight days straight until he murdered him on the eighth night. He tells us specifically in his testimony that he watched the old man as he slept so that he would know the right time to take action. He did all of this purposely so that his plan would work without any flaws. This also shows us that he has plenty of time to consider his actions after deciding to kill the man (“First Degree Murder Law and Legal Definition”). Furthermore, “A defendant deliberates by considering the act and its consequences (but not necessarily the punishment), and deciding to follow through with it” (Segars). Mr. Heart made sure he was extra nice to the old man a week before the act, so that he would not suspect that anything wrong was going to happen. He knew that tricking the victim was wrong, but he did it anyway because it benefitted him and got him one step closer to fully carrying out his nefarious plan. Equally important, he took an excessive amount of time to fit his head into the door when he was stalking the victim during the night. “And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it- oh so gently” (Poe 1). Mr. Heart not only stalked the old man every night for eight days, but he took an hour just to open the door. He did this solely because he did not want to startle the old man and ruin his plan that he’s worked so hard to carry out. Mr. Heart has done so much so that he could get away with murdering the victim. He cannot get away with all of the damage he has done by stalking the elderly man, being extra kind to him just so that he could take his life later, and taking his time to put his head in the doorway of the victim’s chamber as if it

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