The "felony murderr rule is medieval in its nastiness. It's been stamped out in every English-speaking country–except the US.
@kevinjonheller You know of anywhere else in the Anglosphere it's still operative, by statute or common-law?
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@ChMadar Looks like New Zealand still has a form of it, as well. (A strange one. Crimes Act 1961, ss 167, 168.) -
@kevinjonheller Weird! (But thanks!) -
@ChMadar By the way, where’s the (inaccurate) quote from? -
@kevinjonheller Oh that was just me talkin'! But I pulled the non-fact from this study, end of very first graf: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/malani.pdf …
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@ChMadar I don’t. Definitively abolished in the UK. Held unconstitutional in Canada. -
@kevinjonheller@ChMadar The UK has joint enterprise which is similar to felony murder@Jliffe -
@Elkhart4@kevinjonheller@ChMadar#jointenterprise is FMR in its worst form and rife in England &Wales
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