Supreme Court of California

In an appeal from a first degree murder conviction by a defendant who claimed to be extremely drunk at the time of the crime, a jury was properly informed that unconsciousness does not require that a person be incapable of movement, for purposes of CALJIC No. 8.47.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/28/2002
• Published 01/28/2002

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Fern M. Laethem, State Public Defender, Jeffrey J. Gale, Acting State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Erik Larson, Therene Powell, Douglas G. Ward and Donald J. Ayoob, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Joan Killeen, Donna B. Chew and Morris Lenk, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.