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Felony Murder
Killing proximately caused in perpetration or attempt of felony
Limitations:
1. Inherently dangerous, in fact or abstract (DEATH only)
2. killing by non-felons: either agency thy (only co-felon killings) or if felon set in motion acts by which killing occurred, can have felony murder for killing by non-felon
3. Res Gestae, which requires but-for and proximate causal connection between felonious acts and death (reasonable foreseeability)
Limitations:
1. Inherently dangerous, in fact or abstract (DEATH only)
2. killing by non-felons: either agency thy (only co-felon killings) or if felon set in motion acts by which killing occurred, can have felony murder for killing by non-felon
3. Res Gestae, which requires but-for and proximate causal connection between felonious acts and death (reasonable foreseeability)
Tags: Homicide
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