Supreme Court of California

Co-defendants may both be guilty of first degree murder under the concurrent causation theory, even when the undisputed evidence shows that only one bullett killed the victim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/27/2001
• Published 08/27/2001

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Melvyn Douglas Sacks, Los Angeles;  Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson, Ralph Barat Saltsman and Stephen Warren Solomon, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Keith I. Motley, Garrett Beaumont and Warren P. Robinson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.