[Honest Nigerian]

dear Zhang
did you read the article?
“Because the deaths occurred in the course of another alleged felony — tampering with a government record — Goines was charged with felony murder.”
Seems like you are just being plain lazy (not that there is anything wrong with that) as there are some other useful/relevant details in the article.

[Zhang Fei]

[Seems like you are just being plain lazy (not that there is anything wrong with that) as there are some other useful/relevant details in the article.]

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You’re right. I skipped the article and forgot about the concept of felony murder where, if you unlawfully do something inherently dangerous (i.e. mount a drug raid and then cover up* the fact that you screwed up the address of the target), and unintentionally kill someone, that’s considered a form of murder. It’s a legislative dodge, strict liability applied to criminal homicide to transform it into murder, that I think will eventually be overturned by a judge. For now, though, this cop is in really hot water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_murder_rule

* Another way of putting this is that if he had come clean after the operation, his career would be shot, but there would be a lesser criminal charge such as negligent homicide.