David Heber v. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, and City of Indianapolis Office of Corporation Counsel

How courts have described this case

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• applying the definition in section 702.13 to the phrase “participating in a forcible felony” in section 707.2(2)
• upholding the conviction because substantial evidence supported a jury finding that head trauma and asphyxia were caused by separate acts
• explaining “[i]f the acts of blunt-force trauma were also a factual cause of death, felony murder applies in this case because a 10 separate act of asphyxia was also a factual cause
• upholding the submission of a felony-murder instruction in a case involving multiple assaults
• “The conduct of a defendant is a ‘factual cause of harm when the harm would not have occurred absent the conduct.’” (citation omitted)
• “The first act must relate to an element of the predicate felony, while the second independent act must kill another person.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).