What is the difference between personally inflicting grievous bodily injury and personally causing death by dangerous driving?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Marin, B256748 (Cal. App. 2015):

prosecution introduced no evidence to prove this element. On a bare record showing only that defendant was convicted by plea of violating section 192, subdivision (c)(1), we can conclude at most that he admitted his grossly negligent conduct proximately caused a death, not that he personally inflicted great bodily injury. "'Proximately causing an injury is clearly different from personally inflicting an injury.' [Citation.] 'To "personally inflict" an injury is to directly cause an injury, not just to proximately cause it. . . .' [Citation.]" (People v. Bland (2002) 28 Cal.4th 313, 337.) "'We think it obvious that an individual can and often does proximately cause injury without personally inflicting that injury. . . .' [Citation.]" (Ibid.)

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