The following excerpt is from Stevenson v. Borg, 33 F.3d 59 (9th Cir. 1994):
1 Stevenson could not have been convicted of felony-murder because under California law, where the burglary was committed in order to commit the murder, the felony-murder rule does not apply. People v. Garrison, 47 Cal.3d 746, 778 (1989).
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