People v. Howard

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Felony murder; accidental death during police chase is not felony muder; but murder can be committed without malice if the killing occurs during the commission of an inherently dangerous felony.

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Tison v. Arizona

Felony-murder rule; simpliciter. Reckless indifference to innocent life, shown by participating in the events leading up to and following a murder, makes the death sentence constitutionally permissible.

Atkins v. Virginia

Execution of mentally retarded person is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment. deterence; retribution.

State v. Hunter

Compulsion is not a defense to homicide charge unless charge is felony murder. Felony murder rule.

People v. Lubow

Proof of the crime of solicitation is complete upon proof of the communication; it does not require an overt act in furtherance nor does it even require proof of delivery of the solicitation to the intended target; criminal solicitation.

Attorney General for Jersey v. Holley

Provocation defense is akin to self defense; would a person having ordinary powers of self-control commit same crime as defendent given gravity of provocation? Evidence of the alcoholism or intoxication of defendant should not be considered.

Latimer v. The Queen

Mercy killing is murder; for defense of necessity to apply, there must be an urgent situation of clear and imminent peril, no reasonable legal alternative to disobeying the law, and proportionality between the harm inflicted and the harm avoided.

The Sentencing Reform Act

United States v. Gementera, judge force convict to declare crime in public, The Sentencing Reform Act affords courts broad discretion in fashioning conditions of supervised release reasonably related to nature and circumstances of offense.

Fair Warning In Legislation

McBoyle v. United States, legislation must be drafted in such a way as to give citizens fair warning of what conduct is encompassed within the statute, ejusdem generis.

People v. Burton

The underlying felony sufficient to trigger the felony-murder rule must involve an independent felonious purpose, lesser included offense.

Williams v. New York

Pre-sentence investigation, imposition of death sentence for murder in the first degree is not void under the Due Process Clause solely because trial court, before imposing sentence, considered additional information from probation department.

But-For-Cause of Injury

People v. Rideout; For a defendant's conduct to constitute the proximate cause of an injury, the victim's injury must be a direct and natural result of the defendant's actions; but-for-cause.

Failure to Alleviate Risk

Commonwealth v. Levesque; criminal liability is possible for failure to alleviate risk that the defendant created.

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