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NO BORDERS IN FELONY MURDER, COURT SAYS.(CAPITAL REGION)
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Byline: JOHN CAHER Staff writer
ALBANY -- Handing a major victory to prosecutors, New York's highest court on Thursday upheld ``felony'' murder convictions in a crime that spanned two states.
The Court of Appeals ruled for the first time that when criminals commit a felony out of state that results in a death in New York, they can be convicted of murder. Until Thursday, the issue was unresolved.
Felony murder is charged when a death occurs during the commission of any of nine serious crimes, including robbery.
For example, if two people ...
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Today in History, Oct. 4
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; ...provided a new look at the works of 19th Century writer Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, one of the least known of the great Russian writers. Leonard J. Kent became interested in Gogol because he stands out "among the somber Russian writers...
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; ...writer of Morte d'Arthur, 1470; Bernard Gilpin, clergyman, known as the "Apostle of the North", 1583; Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol, playwright and novelist, 1852; William Willett, builder, and promoter of "daylight saving time", 1915...
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