PEOPLE v. PRETTYMAN

Docket No. S040008.

14 Cal.4th 248 (1996)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RICHARD D. PRETTYMAN et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

December 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

George L. Schraer and Neil Auwarter, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendants and Appellants.

Francis J. Bardsley, Public Defender (San Diego), Jacqueline C. Crowle, Deputy Alternate Public Defender, Riordan & Rosenthal, Dennis P. Riordan and Dylan L. Schaffer as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Robert B. Shaw, Janelle B. Davis and Nancy L. Palmieri, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

John J. Meehan, District Attorney (Alameda) and William M. Baldwin, Assistant District Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

KENNARD, J.

Under California law, a person who aids and abets a confederate in the commission of a criminal act is liable not only for that crime (the target crime), but also for any other offense (nontarget crime) committed by the confederate as a "natural and probable consequence" of the crime originally aided and abetted. To convict a defendant of a nontarget crime as an accomplice...

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