Robert E. Carter v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• during continuous police pursuit and while defendant is still sporting stolen goods, defendant guilty of felony-murder if defendant kills pursuer
• during continuous police pursuit and while defendant is still sporting stolen goods, defendant guilty of felony-murder if defendant kills pursuer
• noting that “the crime of robbery is still in progress; ... [if] during continuous pursuit immediately organized and begun, asportation is still going on, with the result that the robber is guilty of first degree murder if in those circumstances he kills a pursuer”
• “[S]o long as the essential ingredient of asportation continues, the crime of robbery is still in progress.”
• in felony murder case, jury could find that robbery was still in progress when pursuing police officer was shot even though there had been a slight delay between robbery and commencement of pursuit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).