People v. Blevins
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CHANNELL, J.
In this case, we analyze what constitutes a closely related offense within the meaning of People v. Geiger (1984) 35 Cal.3d 510 [199 Cal.Rptr. 45, 674 P.2d 1303, 50 A.L.R.4th 1055], requiring the trial court to instruct the jury on a lesser related offense, We find that for a lesser uncharged offense to be closely related to a greater charged offense, evidence of the lesser offense must be relevant to the issue of whether the defendant is guilty of the greater one. Applying this test, we find that the lesser offenses in this case were not closely related to the greater…
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