Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. You should write an incorrect option. Even though there exist multiple wrong answers, we only need a single wrong answer. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Q: to kill Tevin if he told about the molestation and that, despite Tevin's repeated requests to go home, Loyd took Tevin to a dump site, made him lie down on the ground and announced to him that he was about to die before repeatedly strangling the child, who struggled so fiercely that he kicked off his own shoes. The State's expert testified that even a small child's natural reaction to strangulation would be to struggle and that death by strangulation can take as long as ten minutes to occur. The evidence supports the trial court's finding beyond a reasonable doubt that the murder was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture to the victim and the depravity of mind of the defendant. See Hance v. State, 245 Ga. 856, 861-862 (3) (268 SE2d 339) (1980) (<HOLDING>). Accord Presnell v. State, 274 Ga. 246, 248
Holding statements: (A) holding that begay rejected that circuits earlier approach under which an offense presented a serious potential risk of physical injury to another if the offense conduct had the potential for serious physical injury to another (B) holding that torture occurs when the victim is subjected to serious physical abuse before death that serious sexual abuse may constitute serious physical abuse that facts supporting a finding of torture will also support a finding of depravity of mind and that the age of the victim may be considered in determining whether the evidence shows depravity of mind (C) holding substantial evidence supported jury finding of abuse of process (D) holding that torture of the victim or serious physical abuse language in the instruction cures vagueness of hac (E) holding evidence of outofstate instances of abuse admissible in child sexual abuse case to show intent opportunity and relationship between defendant and victim
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holding that begay rejected that circuits earlier approach under which an offense presented a serious potential risk of physical injury to another if the offense conduct had the potential for serious physical injury to another