California Court of Appeal

Conviction of defendant for second degree murder of his wife is affirmed as the single instrumentality exception under Joseph G. did not entitle defendant to an instruction on aiding and abetting suicide, and defendant's claim that the court did not offer a similar voluntary intoxication instruction for implied malice is rejected.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/10/2010
• Published 05/10/2010

Judges

• RUBIN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• J. Kahn, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Paul M. Roadarmel, Jr. and Blythe J. Leszkay, for Plaintiff and Respondent.