California Court of Appeal

Defendant's murder conviction is reversed where the trial court erred in instructing the jury on felony murder since evading a pursuing officer while driving with willful and wanton disregard to the safety of persons is not an inherently dangerous felony.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/02/2005
• Published 06/02/2005

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Janet J. Gray, Pacific Grove, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, J. Robert Jibson and Raymond L. Brosterhous, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.