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I was surprised — shocked, even — to read last week that Cook County prosecutors charged Kristian Branch with first-degree murder.
Police say the 28-year-old Elgin woman accompanied her boyfriend, Mario Charles, Tuesday when he entered a Schaumburg hotel room to pull an armed robbery.
One of the intended victims also had a gun, though, and shot back and killed Charles.
Illinois' "felony murder" statute says that if you commit a serious crime that results in someone's death, you can face first-degree murder charges even if you were unarmed or didn't directly cause the death.
The idea is that if a pair of punks stick up a bank and one of them kills the teller, they're equally responsible. |
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