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paulg_68 Posts: 2,469 Registered: 2009-7-27 18:45:54	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: What's the rule about someone getting killed during the commission of a crime
	Like if you're robbing a shop and someone jumps out the window to escape and hits their head and dies. Even though the robber didn't intend to kill the guy that counts as a murder right? What's that rule called and what are the particulars of it? -----signature----- If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc "Everyone has a chance to become rich." - Groucho48 "Most of the human wealth on earth exists between the ears of live human beings." - theredkay1
Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243 Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: What's the rule about someone getting killed during the commission of a crime
	You are probably thinking of felony murder although your example is not an ideal one. The more typical situation is like when the cops shoot an innocent person trying to hit the bank robber or something like that.
Elocism Title: Pseudonym Posts: 787 Registered: 2002-5-3 01:50:00	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: What's the rule about someone getting killed during the commission of a crime
	Felony Murder Rule perhaps -----signature----- you are broken now but faith can heal you just do everything i tell you to do
cobane Posts: 473 Registered: 2001-9-6 18:42:56	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: What's the rule about someone getting killed during the commission of a crime
	He felony head, he did! -----signature----- "See that the men are thoroughly insulated, for we shall encounter extreme cold." - Dr. Zarkov
Koneg Title: Evil Genius Posts: 894 Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: What's the rule about someone getting killed during the commission of a crime
	Yukishiro1 posted: You are probably thinking of felony murder although your example is not an ideal one. Uhm, yes actually, it is an ideal example of a felony murder. -----signature----- * First rule of a gun fight: Have a gun. \| "Any sufficiently advanced idiocy is indistinguishable from trolling." -- Arthur C Clarke
Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243 Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57	Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: What's the rule about someone getting killed during the commission of a crime
	It's not a great example. It's the sort of thing felony murder encompasses but isn't really designed for. Another bad example would be someone tries to rob someone on the street and their dog gets panicked and runs into the street, causing a car accident which kills someone. Both fall within the felony murder rule but neither are great examples of what motivates it. Felony murder covers situations where people react to a crime by doing things that don't normally result in death but happen to for some reason or another, but that isn't really why it exists.

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