Supreme Court of California

Because fear for one's own life does not justify the killing of an innocent person, duress is not a defense to murder, and cannot reduce murder to manslaughter.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/29/2002
• Published 07/29/2002

Judges

• CHIN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Neoma D. Kenwood, Berkeley, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorney General, Catherine A. Rivlin, Gerald A. Engler and Moona Nandi, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.