LAW 604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Larceny, Robbery, Homicide
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Basically, strict liability for murder, does what we normally refuse to do in allowing murder conviction w/ mr for murder. -legal wrong test: intent to do petit larceny but do grand larceny, you go down for later (cl, mpc reversed). But this only applied to degrees of same crime. -accomplice liability: now minority jurisdictions (cl), foreseeable second crime doctrine. -felony murder: if second crime is homicide; we take mr from underlying felony and use it to convict you of murder. Stamp case: armed robbery, heart attack of d. mpc"s rejection of it is part of the reason why state legislatures have rejected mpc. Deterrence: underlying felony, dangerously conducting the underlying felony (make them protect human life, intentional killings; minor deterrence, prevent people from hiding mr with another felony (avoid conviction for intentional killings). Phillips he committed fraud, in abstract not inherently dangerous. His particular method (preventing people from gaining actual medical help) was though.
