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"The felony murder rule is an exception to the normal rules of homicide." https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/homicide/felony-murder/ https://www.justia.c

• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > "The felony murder rule is an exception to the normal rules of homicide." Whether or not one accepts that use of “normal”, it remains a rule and the claim that murder without specific intent is categorically not first degree, even in broad general terms is false (even before looking into all the variations in specific statutory schemes in the US, which really frustrate this kind of generalization, which takes common law rules and overgeneralizes the way things that are not part of the common law are mapped on to it.)
  • blacksqr 5y ago
    I was trying to respond to the claim that "intent is not law." Your point is valid but irrelevant. Even if intent to kill is not required in all cases to get a conviction for first degree murder, under the felony murder rule it is still necessary to prove intent to commit the original crime.