What is the test for a person to be deemed a "defendant" of a crime?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Larios, 256 Cal.Rptr.3d 223, 42 Cal.App.5th 956 (Cal. App. 2019):
imputed to a person based solely on his or her participation in a crime" (id. , subd. (a)(3)), it made no exceptions for attempted murder, which indisputably requires express malice. ( People v. Booker , supra , 51 Cal.4th at p. 178, 119 Cal.Rptr.3d 722, 245 P.3d 366.) By failing to exclude attempted
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