Commonwealth v. Bourgeois

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• where armed robbery and armed assault were underlying felonies, defendant could not be liable for felony-murder as accessory unless he knew his accomplice was armed
• predicate felonies of armed assault in a dwelling house and armed robbery supporting murder conviction
• sufficient evidence of deliberate premeditation, where both defendants carried loaded guns at the crime scene, even if only one defendant fired the fatal shot
• defendant had no right to introduce hearsay evidence that victim failed to select his photograph from array
• witness’s nonidentification not shown to be exculpatory because “there [was] no evidence on the record ... that the victim had such an opportunity to view the defendant as would have permitted the victim to identify the defendant”
• armed robbery is a felony inherently dangerous to human life

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).