California Court of Appeal

Conviction of co-defendant for murder is reversed as the trial court's jury instruction was prejudicial error as an aider and abettor may be found guilty of lesser homicide-related offenses than those actual perpetrator committed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2010
• Published 01/27/2010

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Brett Harding Duxbury, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Bennie T. Nero., Matthew Alger, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Lisa L. Brown., Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Yun K. Lee and Corey J. Robins, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.