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California Supreme Court: prisoners must get lawyer when challenging convictions for killings committed by others

JURIST

1437 , which limited the scope of the “natural and probable consequences” doctrine and felony murder to prevent liability from being imposed on a person “who is not the actual killer, did not act with the intent to kill, or was not a major participant in the underlying felony who acted with reckless indifference to human life.”

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Can Trump Escape Accountability?  

The Crime Report

In an on-screen world where the storyline of the central character has only gone from bad to worse and the plotlines have morphed into “good” versus “evil” narratives, the all-powerful superhero Attorney General Merrick Garland will sooner or later have to do battle with the all-powerful supervillain Donald J. The Indefatigable Liar.