State v. Miniefield

How courts have described this case

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• holding that arson resulting in death constituted felony murder even though the same act was the basis for both the predicate felony and the homicide, and even though the defendant's design was to use the act of arson to commit a homicide
• holding that arson resulting in death constituted felony murder even though the same act was the basis for both the predicate felony and the homicide, and even though the defendant’s design was to use the act of arson to commit a homicide
• “[T]he fact that the [predicate felony] supplied the premeditation necessary for first-degree murder does not make it part of the same offense.”
• arson does not merge into felony murder because it is designated a predicate felony under felony murder statute
• Arizona criminal law is based solely on statute and not on common law
• \The legislature has deemed... murder committed in the perpetration of certain other felonies so heinous and committed with such a wanton disregard for human life that there is no need to prove the elements usually necessary for a conviction for first degree murder.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).