OPINION AND ORDER
JED S. RAKOFF, U.S.D.J.
The felony murder rule — which imposes strict liability for even accidental killings that result from commission of a felony — has long since been rejected by its country of origin, England. As early as 1830, the famous legal scholar and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote that...
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