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Re:Joe Ligon: America's 'longest juvenile lifer' on 68 years... by ipaddr on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:19PM (#27166523)
That's a recent law so it shouldn't apply to this timeperiod.
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Re:Joe Ligon: America's 'longest juvenile lifer' on 68 years... by xyzzyz on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:31PM (#27166639)
Felony murder rule is old and well established in common law, dating centuries back.
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Re:Joe Ligon: America's 'longest juvenile lifer' on 68 years... by DiffEq on Saturday May 15, 2021 @03:03PM (#27167928)
How far back…well there is a scripture in the Old Testament that essentially says if you are party to a crime then you are just as guilty as the one who committed the crime…so this common law practice actually dates back at least 4000 years. Also Japanese law held the same types of practices for thousands of years and Is m sure many other ancient cultures.
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