Is a robbery committed in the perpetration of robbery a first degree murder?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Yu, G046106 (Cal. App. 2013):
A killing committed in the perpetration of robbery is first degree murder. ( 189.) Under the felony-murder doctrine, the defendant must have intended to commit robbery at the time of the killing. (People v. Anderson (2006) 141 Cal.App.4th 430, 446.)
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