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Additional Limits

In addition to the inherently dangerous felony requirement and the merger doctrine, both legislatures and courts have imposed additional limitations on the application of the felony murder rule. As you read through these cases ask yourself both:

1) Whether all of these limitations tell us something about the wisdom of the felony murder rule, and 

2) Whether, notwithstanding the availabilty of felony murder in a particular case, there are other ways to convict the defendant of a homicide crime.