United States v. Tham

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• noting that there is general agreement among the courts and commenters that the felony-murder rule was conceived to deter the commission of certain dangerous felonies
• applying the principle established in Russello to a construction of the Sentencing Guidelines
• “Accordingly, to be guilty of first-degree murder by virtue of the federal felony murder rule, the defendant need only have intended to commit the underlying felony; no other mens rea is required.”
• applying the principle established in Russello to a construction of the Sentencing Guidelines

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).