Furious Police Sound Off After Women Convicted in Slaying of 19-Year-Old Are Released Early

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Call it a lesson in progressive “good intentions.”

Things always start out that way, don’t they? Take Minnesota’s overhaul of its felony murder statute. According to Minnesota Public Radio, under the old statute, “prosecutors could charge a person with aiding and abetting murder during the commission of an underlying felony no matter their role in that felony.”

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, a former public defender, was one of those who supported the overhaul. As MPR reported, “Moriarty noted that under the old felony murder law, a killer who signs a plea deal could wind up with a shorter sentence than his accomplice who drove the getaway car and is convicted at trial.”

“It is not fair when two people get charged with murder when one of them pulled the trigger and the other one had no idea this was going to happen,” Moriarty told the outlet in a story published earlier this week.

“Certainly both people have to be held accountable, but they should be held accountable for what they actually do.”

Now, MPR reported, Minnesota’s “revised statute limits felony murder prosecutions to people who caused the victim’s death, intended to cause it, or were major participants in the underlying crime.”

And who were the first beneficiaries of this progressive overhaul? Two women who were inarguably major participants in the underlying crime.

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