Felony murder rule

The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder: when someone is killed (regardless of intent to kill) in the commission of a dangerous or enumerated crime (called a felony in some jurisdictions), the offender, and also the offender's accomplices or co-conspirators, may be found guilty of murder.[1]

The concept of felony murder originates in the rule of transferred intent, which is older than the limit of legal memory: is a derivative of the Roman law figure: "qui in re illicita versatur, tenetur etiam pro casu",[2] even when "minus voluit delinquere et plus deliquit[3] (crime "praeter intentionem");[4] Burchell notes that <<English law recognised the versari in re illicita doctrine, which serves as the basis for the felony-murder rule in English homicide law>>.[5]

In its original form, the malicious intent inherent in the commission of any crime, however trivial, was considered to apply to any consequences of that crime regardless of intent. [6]

  1. ^ Binder, Guyora (2012-05-09). Felony Murder. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-8170-1.
  2. ^ Reed, Alan; Bohlander, Michael (2018-10-03). Homicide in Criminal Law: A Research Companion. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-01629-2.
  3. ^ Bohlander, Michael; Kemp, Gerhard; Webster, Mark (2023-06-15). Public Health Crisis Management and Criminal Liability of Governments: A Comparative Study of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5099-4632-7.
  4. ^ Varela, Lorena (2012). "Strict-Liability como forma de imputación jurídico-penal". Indret: Revista para el Análisis del Derecho (3): 19–26. ISSN 1698-739X.
  5. ^ Reed, Alan; Bohlander, Michael (2018-10-03). Homicide in Criminal Law: A Research Companion. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-01629-2.
  6. ^ "H. Schroeder, Felony murder" (PDF).

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