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PEOPLE v. HANSEN

Docket No. S036384.

9 Cal.4th 300 (1994)

885 P.2d 1022

36 Cal. Rptr.2d 609

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MICHAEL HANSEN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 30, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Joan T. Anyon, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and E. Stephen Temko for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Willliamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Howard Wayne, Keith I. Motley, Holly D. Wilkens and Frederick R. Millar, Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

GEORGE, J.

In this case we must determine whether the offense of discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling house (Pen. Code, § 246)1 is a felony "inherently dangerous to human life" for purposes of the second degree felony-murder doctrine, and, if so, whether that doctrine nonetheless is inapplicable in the present case under the so-called "merger" doctrine applied in People v...

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