Is a defendant who flees from the scene of an injury accident a crime?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Martinez, 2 Cal.5th 1093, 218 Cal.Rptr.3d 140, 394 P.3d 1066 (Cal. 2017):
sense that it constitutes part of the conduct forbidden by the statute. (Corenbaum v. Lampkin (2013) 215 Cal.App.4th 1308, 1340, 156 Cal.Rptr.3d 347.) Nor is any degree of fault required for conviction; a defendant who flees the scene of an injury accident has committed a crime even if the accident was solely the result of the victim's own negligence. (Veh. Code, 20001(a).) As
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