Main/Defenses to Felony Murder

I have previously written that the Oregon Supreme Court has provided some very helpful guidance in developing defenses to felony murder. I wrote about it in this [[Blog:Main/Defeating_Felony_Murder:_Finding_a_Lagniappe_in_Today%27s_Already_Great_OSC_Opinion | post.]]

Today, the COA issued an opinion in ''State v. Perez-Chi ''that furthers the discussion in some very good ways.

Later today, this website will summarize the criminal cases that came out this morning from the COA.

''Perez-Chi,'' like its predecessor ''Lopez-Minjarez'', deals with these defenses indirectly. When those defenses are addressed at the trial level, either when these two cases are re-tried or new felony murder cases go forward, preservation needs to be made by way of an MJOA and a special jury instruction. But of the two, the jury instruction is far more important.
{{wl-publish: 2012-08-15 08:29:21 -0700 | Ryan:Ryan Scott }}