timtyler comments on Rationality & Criminal Law: Some Questions - Less Wrong

14 Post author: simplicio 20 June 2010 07:42AM

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Comment author: timtyler 20 June 2010 04:56:59PM 1 point [-]

Hmm - is that right? What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter ...?

Comment author: SilasBarta 20 June 2010 06:51:37PM 4 points [-]

What about the felony murder rule?

The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder in two ways. First, when an offender kills accidentally or without specific intent to kill in the course of an applicable felony, what might have been manslaughter is escalated to murder.

That is, in countries that have it, if you were attempting to commit a violent felony (like kidnapping), which results in a death, it's upgraded to murder, even if accidental.

Comment author: simplicio 20 June 2010 05:01:13PM 0 points [-]

Right you are. Edited.