Supreme Court of California

Where the victim was not involved in the original altercation, the state must have more evidence for a murder conviction than that a retaliatory murder was reasonably foreseeable and occurred a short time after the provacative act.

Appellate Information

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

Judges

• BAXTER, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Philip M. Brooks, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Berkeley, for Defendant and Appellant., Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson and David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Robert M. Foster, Keith I. Motley and Garrett Beaumont, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.