1.   A judge this week is to rule on a defense request to reduce or overturn her second-degree murder conviction.

2.   An MP is calling for a review of the murder convictions of two men.

3.   Although California prosecutors have never won a murder conviction for a dog killing, there is precedent elsewhere.

4.   And when Jack Ruby shot Oswald, Wade joined three of his assistants in the courtroom to win a murder conviction against Ruby.

5.   Authorities are trying to determine whether the attack was a hate crime, which would carry additional time on top of any murder conviction.

6.   Both crimes must be proved for a capital murder conviction.

7.   Both are serving life terms, although Jaynes will eventually be eligible for parole on his second-degree murder conviction.

8.   A first degree murder conviction carries a punishment of life without parole.

9.   A first-degree murder conviction requires prosecutors to show that a defendant intentionally murdered her victim.

10.   A first-degree murder conviction would require the jury to additionally find the murder was premeditated, the jury instruc tions say.