Intent is a mental attitude with which an individual acts, and therefore it cannot ordinarily be directly proved but must be inferred from surrounding facts and circumstances. Intent refers only to the state of mind with which the act is done or omitted. It differs from motive, which is what prompts a person to act or to fail to act.
Derrick Todd Lee has been sentenced to death for the first degree murder of LSU grad student Charlotte Murray Pace. It took the jury that convicted Lee for Pace's murder 93 minutes to unanimously decide Lee's fate. Lee is now at Angola State Penitentiary.
Story highlights. 1  Final part of the three-part interview is expected to publish Wednesday.  2 Serial, a popular podcast, detailed an investigation into the 15-year-old murder of Hae Min Lee. 3  Her ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was convicted.  Key witness in the case against Syed was Jay Wilds, who spoke to The Intercept. 1  The first season of Serial ended this month, but the story is far from finished. 2  The popular podcast detailed an investigation into the 15-year-old murder of Hae Min Lee, a popular high school senior in Baltimore.