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California gave accomplices to killings a second chance. How a new case tested the law

HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CONVICTED of murder in California didn’t kill anyone. They were handed long sentences because they drove a getaway car or kicked down a door in a robbery that ended in murder  — and the state used to allow prosecutors to charge accomplices with first-degree felony murder.  That changed in 2018, when California […]

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