What is the test for whether a defendant has reached a "place of temporary safety" in a vehicle accident?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Street, B267285 (Cal. App. 2017):
for example, the perpetrator "discard[s] or abandon[s]" the original felonious intent, or there is some other "arguably significant interruption of events between the entry and the homicide." (People v. Sakarias (2000) 22 Cal.4th 596, 625-626.) The "ultimate question of whether the defendant has reached a place of temporary safety is an objective one to be determined by the trier of fact." (People v. Russell, supra, 187 Cal.App.4th at p. 991.)
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