State v. Leech

How courts have described this case

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• holding where the defendant's conduct in setting a fire was a proximate cause of a firefighter's death, the death occurred in course of and in furtherance of the arson
• holding arsonist proximately caused firefighter's death despite firefighter's possible negligence
• requiring a close proximity of time and distance for felony homicide
• defendant claimed on appeal that death did not occur in \furtherance of the arson as required by the felony murder statute\
• defendant claimed on appeal that death did not occur in “furtherance of the arson as required by the felony murder statute”
• “The purpose of the felony murder rule is to deter felons from killing negligently or accidentally by holding them strictly responsible for killings they commit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).