State v. Swenson

Shawn Daniel Swenson contends that his conviction of first degree felony murder based on the predicate felony of first or second degree robbery or attempted robbery must be reversed because (1) the victim’s father, while acting as a government agent, obtained evidence in violation of the Fourth Amendment that should have been suppressed, together with the fruits of that evidence; and (2) that automatic reversal is required because the accomplice liability instruction, the current WPIC 10.51,1 relieved the State of its burden to prove all the essential elements of felony murder beyond a…