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9:24 is right. Where's LA and CHI bonus news?

The guy is as guilty as the rest. Felony murder rule, gotta love it!

Teddy bear teacher better get the hell out of sudan before she gets lynched! Try to help savages and that's what you get. Nice.

Yeah, let's get rid of the felony murder rule. Only the murderer should be punished for his/her murder. Accidental deaths and accomplice crimes aren't quite up there with actual murder IMO.

I'm not entirely against the felony murder rule. The application in the case in the Times does seem pretty harsh, seeing as how remote the murder was from his lending the car. I'd be less bothered by, say, a driver of a getaway car. The FMR deters people from cooperating.

Underneath Their Robes was such a better blog than this garbage particularly because it did not cater to the Justice Juniors (law students).

Put your heads back in your books hammies.

He knew they were going to use the car to commit a robbery. The article is very sympathetic but I'm sure it leaves some material facts out.

In fairness to the prosecutors they did offer him a deal.

"Mr. Rimmer, the prosecutor in the Holle case"

Heh heh. Rimmer. Holle. Heh heh.

Want to learn about other disgusting policies the government promotes? Watch Frontline's story on Juveniles serving Life Without Parole.

If you look at accomplice liability and the FMR separately, there is some rationale behind each of them. But a law that merges them places the defendant two steps from the crime, rather than one, as each of the individual doctrines does. This just seems like some perverse combination of the two that ends up going farther than the deterrence rationale for either of the doctrines.

The Liptak article would have been much better if he actually knew the difference between felony murder and accomplice liability, and the implications of the felony murder rule. Given that he doesn't, it's not even clear what he's outraged about.