People v. Birreuta

How courts have described this case

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• declining to apply transferred intent doctrine when defendant intentionally kills one victim and accidentally kills another victim; in such cases defendant may be prosecuted for first and second degree murder, respectively
• transferred intent not applied where defendant intended to, and did, kill one victim, and also accidentally killed a second unintended victim

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