California Court of Appeal

In cases involving alleged criminal conduct prior to June 2, 2000, a jury must be instructed that an unintentional killing in unreasonable self defense is involuntary manslaughter, not voluntary manslaughter.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/16/2002
• Published 05/16/2002

Judges

• PERLUSS, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Bruce Daniel Rosen, Dana Point, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Robert F. Katz and Joseph P. Lee, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.