People v. Favor

Opinion

CHIN, J.

In this case, a jury found defendant guilty of two counts of robbery, as an aider and abettor, and guilty of two counts of attempted murder, on the theory that the nontarget offenses of attempted murder were a natural and probable consequence of the target offenses of robbery which defendant had aided and abetted. The jury further found that the attempted murders were willful, deliberate, and premeditated, under Penal Code section *872664, subdivision (a) (section 664(a)).1 The statute increases the punishment for attempted murder beyond the maximum otherwise prescribed, when…