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Reply to "Del. Charlotte Crutchfield proposes bill to ban felony murder charges for people under 25"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Felony Murder" gets so abused as a charge; a lot of jurisdictions have eliminated it. It's been used to charge people with murder when a COP shoots someone else (I'm robbing a bank, a cop shoots my co-robber, I get charged with felony murder), which seems to be nonsense. Felony murder means that people who never intended to kill anyone, who never held a weapon, and who may not even have been in the room when someone is killed, can be charged with murder. Why not just charge them with the actual crime they committed?[/quote] Because they created, intentionally, the kind of dangerous situation that puts people’s lives at risk in precisely the way that you describe. What’s the alternative, hold no one accountable for such deaths on the grounds that it was just some sort of unforseeable accident? [/quote]
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