postmurder

Adjective

postmurder (not comparable)

1. happening after a murder.
   • Evidence of postmurder offences committed by a defendant against other victims are irrelevant to a determination of existence or nonexistence of aggravating factor that murder was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, or inhuman in that it involved torture, depravity of mind or aggravated...1984, New Jersey Superior Court, New Jersey County Courts, Reports of cases argued and determined in the Superior Court, Appellate Division, Chancery Division, Law Division, and in the County Courts...
   • The question in Leach was whether, in a prosecution for murder for hire, there was sufficient proof of a further conspiracy to collect life insurance to make admissible postmurder extrajudicial declarations under the coconspirator exception to the hearsay rule2001, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California, page 980