Supreme Court of California

In a prosecution that resulted in a conviction for second-degree murder, the Court of Appeal's reduction of the conviction to voluntary manslaughter is reversed, where there was sufficient evidence to satisfy both the physical and the mental components of implied malice.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/30/2012
• Published 01/30/2012

Judges

• Baxter

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Randall Bookout, Lilia E. Garcia