When a crime does not qualify as a lesser included offense because all of its elements are not subsumed within the elements of the charged crime or the charging allegations?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Lopez, 56 Cal.App.4th 762, 65 Cal.Rptr.2d 827 (Cal. App. 1997):

6 When a crime does not qualify as a lesser included offense because all of its elements are not subsumed within the elements of the charged crime or the charging allegations, it may still be a lesser related offense of the charged crime. When an offense "is closely related to that charged and the evidence provides a basis for finding the defendant guilty of the lesser but innocent of the charged offense," the offense is deemed to be "lesser related," and on a defendant's request, a trial court must instruct the jury on the lesser related offense. (People v. Toro (1989) 47 Cal.3d 966, 974, 254 Cal.Rptr. 811, 766 P.2d 577.)

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