Supreme Court of California

Defendant's murder conviction is affirmed where the merger doctrine does not bar jury instruction on second degree murder based upon a felony-murder theory.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/19/2004
• Published 08/19/2004

Judges

• GEORGE, C.J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Juliana Drous, San Francisco, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Manuel M. Medeiros, State Solicitor General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass and Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorneys General, Laurence K. Sullivan, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Catherine A. Rivlin, Seth K. Schalit and William M. Kuimelis, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.