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No Accomplice Liability for Theft and Felony-Murder for Aiding After the Fact

January 15th, 2010

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently held in the case of State v. Whitaker, that a defendant cannot be found guilty of felony murder and robbery for a murder committed during a theft unless he shared the intent of the person who actually committed the theft before or at the time the theft was committed.  [...]