What is a homicide committed in the perpetration of a crime ofcible rape?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Powell, 236 Cal.Rptr.3d 316, 422 P.3d 973, 5 Cal.5th 921 (Cal. 2018):
A homicide "committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate ... rape" is first degree murder. ( 189; People v. Berryman (1993) 6 Cal.4th 1048, 1086, 25 Cal.Rptr.2d 867, 864 P.2d 40.) Forcible rape is "an act of sexual intercourse accomplished ... [] ... [] ... against a persons will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the person or
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