. @tedlieu, if you want to be California's AG, this statement is deeply, deeply troubling.

California has abolished the use of the felony murder rule for accomplices who had no intent to kill.

California is moving away from its racist "tough on crime" past. Are you? https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1347438726599778305
This is what current Attorney General Becerra said about the felony murder rule: https://twitter.com/AGBecerra/status/1153379794366521345?s=20
This is also what he said: https://twitter.com/AGBecerra/status/1197004256064221184?s=20
The late, great Justice Stanley Mosk, one of the greatest Attorney Generals in California and one of its greatest Supreme Court Justices rightfully called the felony murder rule "barbaric."

This was 38 years ago. We don't need an AG who wants to drag us back.
This is the barbarity of this rule in South Carolina. https://theappeal.org/south-carolina-teen-50-years-prison-shooting/
‘Hand of One, Hand of All’: 50 Years for a Teen Who Didn’t Pull the Trigger

At 15, Kenneth Lamont Robinson was convicted for murder under South Carolina’s accomplice liability law, despite not committing the shooting that killed Kedena Brown.

https://theappeal.org/south-carolina-teen-50-years-prison-shooting/
This is the barbarity of this rule in Texas. https://theappeal.org/texas-execution-patrick-murphy-law-of-parties/
Texas Plans to Execute a Man For A Murder He Didn’t Commit

Patrick Murphy didn’t even learn about the murder until later that day. A controversial law allows him to be executed anyway.

https://theappeal.org/texas-execution-patrick-murphy-law-of-parties/
This is the barbarity of this rule in Alabama. https://theappeal.org/alabama-prosecutor-locked-up-4-black-teens-for-a-murder-they-didnt-commit-now-hes-trying-2-more/
An Alabama Prosecutor Locked Up 4 Black Teens For A Murder They Didn’t Commit. Now He’s Trying 2...

Two teenagers are facing life without parole sentences for capital murder, though it’s not clear they pulled the trigger.

https://theappeal.org/alabama-prosecutor-locked-up-4-black-teens-for-a-murder-they-didnt-commit-now-hes-trying-2-more/
This is the barbarity of the rule in Illinois. https://theappeal.org/the-felony-murder-rule-as-a-representation-of-whats-wrong-in-our-criminal-legal-system/
The Felony Murder Rule As A ‘Representation Of What’s Wrong In Our Criminal Legal System’

https://theappeal.org/the-felony-murder-rule-as-a-representation-of-whats-wrong-in-our-criminal-legal-system/
This is the barbarity in Maryland https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0610-felony-murder-20190607-story.html
Abolish felony murder in Maryland

There are hundreds of men and women sitting in Maryland prisons today serving life sentences that do not reflect their actual culpability.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0610-felony-murder-20190607-story.html
In California, not only did the Legislature, led by @NancySkinnerCA, and Governor Brown end the felony murder rule, they allowed people to come home, sometimes after decades in prison.

You are behind the times. We won't be dragged back. https://twitter.com/ChatfieldKate/status/1311510924553940993?s=20
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