Supreme Court of California

The crime of driving with a willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property while fleeing from a pursuing police officer is not an inherently dangerous felony for purposes of the second-degree felony-murder rule.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/27/2005
• Published 01/27/2005

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Madeline McDowell, Sacramento, 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, Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, W. Scott Thorpe, Janet E. Neeley, John G. McLean and Sharon E. Loughner, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.