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anberlin32
My question involves criminal law for the state of: New Jersey
As I understand, the state of New Jersey is one of a few states that does not have degrees of murder.
My question is:
What are the reasons/justifications for why some states decided to divide murders into degrees?
For me personally, the murder is the same and the end result is the same, so to say one deserves a stricter sentence than the other sounds absurd to me — unless we're talking about accidents (which would fall under manslaughters rather than murders).