Doing Research For a Book

[quincy]

Does CA not have a felony murder law? In some states the kidnapper could be charged with the death of the death of the victim even though someone else pulled the trigger, because the shooter acted while trying to stop a crime.

Now that said, shooting at people falling down the stairs borders on felony stupid.

California's felony murder law was changed in September of last year and there has been controversy over the new law ever since. The new law essentially requires proof of intent to kill.

 

[quincy]

bcr229, here is a link to the new law, whose constitutionality is being challenged:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1437

 

[PayrollHRGuy]

bcr229, here is a link to the new law, whose constitutionality is being challenged:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=20172018SB1437

That link generated an empty page.

 

[quincy]

That link generated an empty page.

Oops. So it did.

It is now fixed.