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Criminal Law : Armed Criminal Action – Attempted Crime – Predicate Offense

Stephanie Maniscalco//May 4, 2017//

Criminal Law : Armed Criminal Action – Attempted Crime – Predicate Offense

Stephanie Maniscalco//May 4, 2017//

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Where a defendant argued that armed criminal action could not be predicated on an attempted offense, armed criminal action requires the commission of a felony and the defendant was convicted of the class B felony of attempted first-degree robbery, so the charge of armed criminal action could be predicated on an attempted offense, but the case is remanded for the correction of a clerical mistake.

Judgment is affirmed in part; reversed in part.

State v. Johnson (MLW No. 70489/Case No. WD79320 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Newton, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Jackson County, Powell, J. (Damien DeLoyola, Kansas City, Missouri, for appellant) (Daniel McPherson, Jefferson City, for respondent).

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