“They found (the clerk) was also armed. As one of the suspects pointed a weapon at him and demanded money, the clerk shot and killed one of the suspects.”
“What this charge is saying is that if you commit a felony and during the course of that felony, you provoke a deadly confrontation and some is killed, you can be held liable.”
“We are being told by the district attorney that this is a novel approach to this law; it is not, we are told, been used in Alabama, although other states have applied felony murder to this type of scenario.”
