{"id":538,"date":"2012-10-19T07:54:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=538"},"modified":"2023-08-12T19:34:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T23:34:07","slug":"93-felony-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"93. Felony Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-539\" title=\"Conspiracy31\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy31.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy31.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Conspiracy31-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e2070a032f71009383289' value='69e2070a032f71009383289'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e2070a032f71009383289' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e2070a032f71009383289' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e2070a032f71009383289' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 10: We&#8217;ll All Go Down Together <br \/>Conspiracy pg 31: Felony Murder<\/p>\n<p>One last thing\u2060\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026What about the bullet in the baby?<\/p>\n<p><em>Vignette of the bullet holes in the window and the pram.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an offshoot of Accomplice Liability called\u00a0<strong>FELONY MURDER<\/strong>, which most states are going to apply in this case.<\/p>\n<p>The rule varies from state to state, but in essence it says that if you&#8217;re participating in a serious crime (a felony), and someone gets killed during that crime, then you will be liable for\u00a0<strong>murder<\/strong>\u2060\u2014no matter who did the actual killing\u2060\u2014so long as either<\/p>\n<p>1) The crime was dangerous to begin with<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>2) The death was foreseeable.<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e2070a032f71009383289' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-law","category-culpability","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}