State v. Villani

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• holding that the trial justice erred by requiring the state to prove beyond a reasonable doubt every element of first-degree murder and, separately, every element of robbery on a felony murder charge
• “In this jurisdiction the felony-murder theory, simply stated, is that any homicide committed while perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate any of the enumerated felonies is first-degree murder.”

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