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To: Paleo Conservative

They’re dancing. She would have been guilty of felony murder just by being the accomplice in a robbery where a homicide occurred.


7 posted on 09/08/2011 12:02:28 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr

She should be.

Robbing a pharmacy at gunpoint may, by definition, result in murder. She only had to know he was going to rob the pharmacy with a gun.

She qualifies in every state with the felony murder rule, imo.


9 posted on 09/08/2011 1:05:24 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: PzLdr
They’re dancing. She would have been guilty of felony murder just by being the accomplice in a robbery where a homicide occurred.

There was a local case where a thug robbed a restaurant and killed the owner and an employee. The thug's girl friend was driving the getaway car. When they were arrested, she refused to a plea bargain, because the DA would only offer a plea for murder. She wanted no more than manslaughter. The DA got her indicted for 1st degree murder. She went to trial, and the jury wouldn't convict on 1st degree murder, but did convict on 2nd degree murder. I'm pretty sure she got a stiffer sentence than if she had plead guilty of 2nd degree murder. The DA got the murder conviction he wanted, and the girl friend did not get a manslaughter conviction she wanted on the plea deal.

10 posted on 09/08/2011 1:40:03 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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