Sentence examples for depraved mind from inspiring English sources

What motivates his infatuation with the unlit filth of the depraved mind?

They seem the product of a very sick and depraved mind, I say.

Prosecutors must show that Mr. Zimmerman murdered Mr. Martin that night with a "depraved mind" — one that harbored ill will, hatred or spite.

Those three words are important because a second-degree murder conviction requires the demonstration of a "depraved mind," one that harbored hatred, ill will or spite.

That charge required Mr. Zimmerman to have evinced a "depraved mind," brimming with ill will, hatred, spite or evil intent, when he shot Mr. Martin.

To find Mr. Zimmerman guilty of second-degree murder, jurors must agree that he shot Mr. Martin out of ill will, hatred, spite or an evil intent, a "depraved mind".

In an opinion issued on 19 February 1929, Magistrate Hyman Bushel declined to take the book's literary qualities into account and said The Well was "calculated to deprave and corrupt minds open to its immoral influences".

Lacking a confession from Mr. Li, or eyewitnesses, the prosecutor, Leigh Bishop, said it was difficult to establish to a jury that Mr. Li had injured Annie with a depraved mind-set.

In a series of recent cases, culminating in the 2006 ruling People v. Feingold, the Court of Appeals has held that depraved indifference is a state of mind.

Whether the killer is a likable, if murderous, sort, like in Showtime's "Dexter" or a more frightening yet eloquent monster, like Hannibal Lecter, audiences are at once compelled and repulsed by a human mind at its most depraved.

But those convictions were brought as a group before New York State's highest court for review on Tuesday, where a panel of judges wrestled with a thorny legal question: Can people become so intoxicated that it is impossible for them to be in the state of mind the law defines as depraved indifference?