SAN FRANCISCO — Famously liberal California Chief Justice Rose Bird called for the abolition of the state’s second-degree felony murder rule back in 1984. So did arch-conservative Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown 20 years later.
And over the years, several other justices and legal analysts from both sides of the political spectrum have continued to question the constitutionality of the more than 150-year-old rule on the grounds that it was created not by legislators but by judges.
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