English edit

Etymology edit

post- +‎ murder

Adjective edit

postmurder (not comparable)

  1. happening after a murder.
    • 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 of the State of New Jersey, page 665:
      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 battery to the victim;
    • 2001, Reports of Cases Determined in the Courts of Appeal of the State of California, page 980:
      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 rule
    • 2008, Fred Ephraim, Kelsey's Quest, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 280:
      As he does, he cautions Michael as to the postmurder parameters.