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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 20 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from People v. Martinez.

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1 People v. Martinez Anchor
calctapp5d · 2019
green “amend the felony murder rule and the natural and probable consequences doctrine, as it relates to murder, to ensure that murder liability is not imposed on a person who is not the actual killer, did not act with the intent to kill, or was not a major participant in the underlyin…” 15
2 People v. Valencia
cal · 2017
green “we must take 'the language . . . as it was passed into law, and we must, if possible without doing violence to the language and spirit of the law, interpret it so as to harmonize and give effect to all its provisions.” 5

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