felony murder rule

A legal doctrine in some (English) common law jurisdictions that broadens the legal ramifications of murder to include:
(1) when an offender kills accidentally or without specific intent to kill in the course of an applicable felony, manslaughter is escalated to murder; and
(2) it makes any participant in the felony criminally liable for any deaths that occur during or in furtherance of that felony.

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"With accomplice liability, we x often get the situation where a co-felon is held liable for an unintended killing by one of their partners," said Guyora Binder, a law professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and author of a book on the history and application of felony murder rules in the United States.

Felony murder rule under scrutiny

First, we summarize the operation of felony murder rules and the considerations that might justify severe penalties for felony murder.

Capital punishment of unintentional felony murder

(13) As a result, the felony murder rule had to be limited in some manner.

The Missouri felony murder rule's merger limitation: a doctrine in limbo

P.2d 130, 133 (1965) ("The purpose of felony murder rule is to

Felony murder, juveniles, and culpability: why the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment should preclude sentencing juveniles who do not kill, intend to kill, or attempt to kill to die in prison

(28) Compare David Crump, Reconsidering the Felony Murder Rule in Light of Modern Criticisms: Doesn 't the Conclusion Depend Upon the Particular Rule at Issue?, 32 Harv.

The limits of "extraordinary power": a survey of first-degree murder appeals under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 278, Section 33E

To be sure, considering the felony murder rule a matter of distributive justice raises some inevitable questions.

A distributive theory of criminal law

Part C introduces the core doctrine surrounding the felony murder rule in California.

The California Supreme Court and the felony murder rule: a Sisyphean challenge?

(33) Guyora Binder, The Origins of American Felony Murder Rules, 57 STAN.

Duress and the underlying felony

(198) First, the Court found that Walters was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder under both the felony murder rule for kidnapping and robbery with a firearm and murder with premeditation and deliberation.

Gender bias in North Carolina's death penalty

Thus, leaving aside the death penalty issue (which Pillsbury also explicitly leaves aside), most dangerous felons who kill can be convicted of murder with or without the felony murder rule. The felony murder rule, of course, is usually an easier route to a murder conviction because the prosecutor does not have to prove the reckless mens tea and the extreme indifference to the value of human life.

Evil in an indifferent universe

The felony murder rule in Alabama has been codified by state statute 13A-6-2 (a)(3), which states a person is guilty of murder when "he or she commits or attempts to commit ...

Football players charged with felony murder

Trotto of first-degree murder under the felony murder rule. In so doing, the jury found that the Mr.

Jury convicts murderer, 20 years later; Victim's body never found, court declared him dead in '08