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Ball/Oberman Crim Law Casebook
Resource 6 . 5 . 2 . 7
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People v. Howard

W. David Ball,
Michelle Oberman

As we have seen, states have sought to limit the scope of the felony murder doctrine in several ways--by limiting it to several enumerated felonies or by limiting it to situations where the accused was directly connected with the crime. Other states have addressed concerns with the felony murder doctrine by limiting it to deaths that occur in the comission of an inherently dangerous felony, as in the following case.

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