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defendant convicted complicity to commit murder and complicity to commit aggravated robbery; cross-examination of witness established bias against defendant such that questions regarding a prior rape case were unnecessary; manifest weight of the evidence; co-defendants' testimony regarding defendant's role in the aggravated robbery established that defendant aided and abetted them; prosecutor gave valid, race-neutral reasons for excusing two potential African-American jurors; under the felony-murder rule, the victim of the murder need not have been innocent; under the felony-murder rule, courts must look at whether the murder was a "proximate result of" the underlying felony
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THE e-mail from Frankie resonates with both hope and despair. Its cry of anguish is a plea for help while there's still time for help to make a difference. Its message of hope involves a belief that the public will respond to free a man who is in prison for his bad judgment as a boy.
The man's name is Brandon Hein. He was 18 when a brawl among teenagers resulted in the death of a policeman's son, James Farris, 16, in 1995. Although another boy confessed to wielding the knife that killed Farris, Hein was sentenced to life without parole under California's stringent felony murder rule for just being there.
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The trial court did not err by entering a judgment of conviction of Appellant for felony murder in violation of R.C. 2903.02(B), based on the predicate offense of felonious assault that proximately resulted in death. Ohio does not recognize the felony-murder rules independent-felony or merger limitation, which in some jurisdictions prevents felonious assault from serving as the underlying offense. The trial courts decision to impose consecutive prison terms was not based on prohibited findings and is not unreasonable, arbitrary, or unconscionable. But, the trial court did err by imposing court costs in the termination entry without imposing them at the sentencing hearing because the Appellant did not have an opportunity to seek a waiver. And, the trial court erred by using the termi...
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* A MALE SWEDISH college student, Ragnar Bengtsson, 26, has begun pumping his breasts at three-hour intervals in a 90-day experiment to see if he can produce milk. If he succeeds, he said, it could prove "very important for men's ability to get much closer to their children at an early stage." A professor of endocrinology told the dairy Aftonbladet that male lactation without hormone treatment might produce "a drop or two," but suggested that men instead consider offering their breasts to babies as a matter of comfort and warmth, rather than as food. Bengtsson, who will report regularly on his progress via Stockholm's TV8 channel and the station's Web site, acknowledged that his timetable would sometimes require that he pump during dasses.
* SEVERAL STATE law enforcement agencies raided...
...'s death under the state's "felony murder" rule, which makes . felons responsible if anyone should...
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... however, the Court altered its analysis and ruled that the execution of the mentally retarded and ju...
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..., or actually fire the shots, the court ruled that the requisite intent was established by evide...