Timeline for How are five murder charges used for each defendant in the Arbery case?
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| Nov 30, 2021 at 2:53 | comment | added | Mark | You're missing something critical: the United States (with the possible exception of Louisiana) follows the merger doctrine, where you can't be convicted of both a less serious offense (eg. larceny) and a more serious offense that includes all elements of the lesser (eg. robbery). Turns out that in Georgia, neither "felony murder" nor "malice murder" is a lesser included offense of the other. | |
| Nov 29, 2021 at 13:57 | history | answered | gnasher729 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |