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Committee rolls bill that would limit 'criminal responsibility' convictions after testimony from families and prosecutors
Summary
Senate Bill 1170, which would narrow accomplice/criminal-responsibility liability, was rolled for one week after emotional testimony from family members and pushback from the District Attorneys General Conference.
Senate Bill 1170, a measure to repeal or narrow provisions that allow convictions under criminal responsibility or felony-murder theories, was rolled by the Senate Judiciary Committee for one week after extended testimony and discussion.
Sponsor testimony described the bill as an effort to “restore a basic principle of fairness” so that individuals are held accountable for their own actions rather than for the acts of co‑defendants, and the sponsor asked the committee to hear victims’ families and survivors who argued the current law has produced disproportionate sentences.
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