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PEOPLE v. SCOTT

Docket No. S048572.

14 Cal.4th 544 (1996)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DAMIEN SCOTT et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

December 19, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Gordon S. Brownell and Robert E. Boyce, under appointments by the Supreme Court, and Laura Schaefer for Defendants and Appellants.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, Linda C. Johnson and Sharon Wooden Richard, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BROWN, J.

A jury convicted defendants Damien Scott and Derrick Brown of various crimes for their part in a drive-by shooting which resulted in the death of one person and injury to several others. We must decide in this case whether the doctrine of transferred intent may be used to assign criminal liability to a defendant who kills an unintended victim when the defendant is also...

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