Opinion ID: 2534434
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Heading Rank: 8

Heading: The felony murder verdicts

Text: ¶ 59 Anderson argues that the felony murder verdicts must be vacated because there was insufficient evidence to support the alleged predicate felony of armed robbery. Our conclusion that substantial evidence supports the armed robbery conviction dooms this argument. In any event, the jury returned separate guilty verdicts for both felony murder and premeditated murder as to each victim; therefore, the first-degree murder convictions would stand even absent a felony murder predicate. See State v. Tucker, 205 Ariz. 157, 167 ¶ 50, 68 P.3d 110, 120 (2003) (That felony murder and premeditated murder contain different elements does not make them different crimes, rather they are simply two forms of first degree murder.).