Can the court give a jury an aiding and abetting instruction?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. McDade, B256545 (Cal. App. 2015):
(People v. Breverman (1998) 19 Cal.4th 142, 177.) The evidence supporting the existing judgment is strong, and there is no reasonable probability that the giving of the irrelevant aiding and abetting instruction affected the result, particularly where the court also told the jury that some of the instructions it was receiving "may not apply, depending on your findings about the facts of the case."
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