Cheek v. Schwartz

How courts have described this case

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• no felony murder liability when robbery victim kills bystander while opposing robbery; contrary result “would be carrying the rule of criminal responsibility for the acts of others beyond all reason”
• victim of attempted robbery accidentally killed bystander

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).