Legal Opinion
People v. Concha
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 31, 2010No. B195197PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MOSK, J.
INTRODUCTION
The California Supreme Court held in this case that a defendant who commits an attempted murder may also be liable for first degree murder when his accomplice is killed by the intended victim in the course of the attempted murder. (People v. Concha (2009) 47 Cal.4th 653 [101 Cal.Rptr.3d 141, 218 P.3d 660].) But the court concluded that the trial court erred when it failed to instruct the jury that “for a defendant to be found guilty of first degree murder, he personally had to have acted willfully, deliberately, and with premeditation when he committed the attempted…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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