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The prosecution filed a motion to amend the information to charge the accused with murder after the accused had pleaded not guilty to the original charge of homicide. The court denied the motion, holding that (1) the information cannot be amended to change the crime charged from homicide to the more serious offense of murder after the accused has pleaded not guilty, as this is a change in substance rather than form, and (2) dismissing the original information in order to file a new information for murder wo

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Dwight Anthony Yu

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