People v. Viser

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that attempted felony murder cannot be charged because \[t]here is no such criminal offense as an attempt to achieve an unintended result.\
• “[t]here is no such criminal offense as an attempt to achieve an unintended result”
• both cases allowing felony-murder charges predicated on felonies involving the defendants’ participation in fatal group attacks on the victims when there was no clear evidence the defendants caused the fatal injuries
• “[t]here is no such criminal offense as an attempt to achieve an unintended result”
• both cases allowing felony-murder charges predicated on felonies involving the defendants’ participation in fatal group attacks on the victims when there was no clear evidence the defendants caused the fatal injuries
• no crime if the outcome was not intended but instead was an accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).