DueProcess FifthAmendment Punishment Privacy
Where a defendant is not convicted of the predicate offense, does a conviction for first-degree felony murder comport with due process under the Fourteenth Amendment? Where there is no evidence that the defendant intended to kill and he is not convicted of the predicate offense, does life imprisonment for a 20-year-old under the felony murder doctrine offend the proportionality principle of the Eighth Amendment?
Where a defendant is not convicted of the predicate offense, does a conviction for first-degree felony murder comport with due process under the Fourteenth Amendment? Where there is no evidence that the defendant intended to kill and he is not convicted of the predicate offense, does life imprisonment for a 20-year-old under the felony murder doctrine offend the proportionality principle of the Eighth Amendment?