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.
Claim: The scene in which Brandon Lee was fatally wounded was left in the final cut of The Crow. Origins: A number of rumors are associated with the death of actor Brandon Lee while filming the dark fantasy The Crow. Some suggest Lee was murdered by the same Chinese Mafia that supposedly caused the sudden death in 1973 of Leeâs.