Conviction of co-defendant for murder is reversed as the trial court’s jury instruction was prejudicial error as an aider and abettor may be found guilty of lesser homicide-related offenses than those the actual perpetrator committed.
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Appellate Information
Filed January 26, 2010
Judges
Opinion by Judge Aldrich
Counsel
For Appellant: Brett Harding Duxbury, Matthew Alger
For Appellee: Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Assistant Attorney General, Yun K. Lee and Corey J. Robins, Deputy Attorneys General
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