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Article: The origins of American felony murder rules.
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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INTRODUCTION: THE MYTH OF THE COMMON LAW FELONY MURDER RULE
I. THE COMMON LAW OF HOMICIDE IN THE COURSE OF CRIME
A. Homicide in the Course of Crime in Early English Law
B. Distinguishing Murder and Manslaughter in Sixteenth-Century
England.
C. Rejecting an Unlawful Act Murder Rule in Seventeenth-Century
England
D. Proposing a Felony Murder Rule in Eighteenth-Century England
II. THE BELATED EMERGENCE OF FELONY MURDER LIABILITY IN ENGLAND
III. SOURCES OF AMERICAN HOMICIDE LAW
A. Homicide in the Course Crime in Colonial America
B. Common Law and Statute in the New Republic
C. Legislative Reform of Homicide Law
IV. JURISDICTIONS WITHOUT FELONY ...
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