Thompson v. Washington, 434 U.S. 898 (1977), was a case dismissed by the Supreme Court of the United States for lack of federal question jurisdiction.
[1] The case was on appeal from the Supreme Court of Washington, and it involved a second degree murder conviction based on the felony murder rule.
[2] Thompson v. Washington was cited in the later Washington case State v. Wanrow, 91 Wash.2d 301 (1978), as an endorsement of the constitutionality of the felony murder rule.
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