In this system, murder requires causing the death of a person or another by which circumstance?

• A. Felony Class A
• B. Felony Class B
• C. Misdemeanor Class C
• D. Felony Class D

Answer: (A)

The key idea is the felony-murder rule: murder can be charged when a death results during the commission or attempted commission of a specified felony. In this system, the designated qualifying felony class is the most serious, Class A. So if a person causes the death of someone while committing a Class A felony, that death meets the required circumstance to constitute murder, even if there was no intent to kill.

The other classes (B, C, D) don’t fit the defined circumstance here because they are not the qualifying underlying felonies that trigger murder under this rule. They wouldn’t automatically elevate a death to murder in this system, whereas a Class A felony would.