California Supreme Court (May 16, 1994) delivered a landmark 6-1 decision giving California one of the toughest fetal murder laws in the nation. In the majority opinion, Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas stated:
<The third-party killing of a fetus with malice aforethought is murder...as long as the state can show that the fetus has progressed beyond the embryonic stage of seven to eight weeks.> 1994CA001
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1994CA001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). California Supreme Court, May 16, 1994, San Francisco, California, in the majority opinion delivered by Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas. Los Angeles Times. "Court rules that killing fetus during crime can be murder," The Dallas Morning News, (Dallas, TX: Tuesday, May 17, 1994, p. 3A.