The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent,
v.
Donald Thomas WRIGHT, Defendant and Appellant.
Supreme Court of California.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 26, 2005.
Rehearing Denied June 29, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
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, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Carlos A. Martinez, Janet E. Neeley, Brian R. Means, Janis Shank McLean, John G. McLean and Aaron R. Maguire, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
David La Bahn; Steve Cooley, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Patrick D. Moran, Acting Head Deputy District Attorney, and Brent Riggs, Deputy District Attorney, for Appellate Committee of the California District Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.
Supreme Court of California.
BROWN, J.
In In re Christian S. (1994) 7 Cal.4th 768, 30 Cal.Rptr.2d 33, 872 P.2d 574 (Christian S.), we reaffirmed that an actual, though unreasonable, belief in the need to defend oneself from an imminent threat of death or great bodily injury negates the malice element of murder, reducing the offense to manslaughter. (See...
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