What is the test for an accomplice theory in a murder case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Casillas, 2d Crim. No. B281363 (Cal. App. 2019):
Where there is evidence from which a jury could have based its special circumstances verdict on an accomplice theory, the court must instruct that the jury must find the defendant intended to aid another in the killing. (People v. Jones (2003) 30 Cal.4th 1084, 1117.)
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