Can a defendant who fled the scene of a crime immediately after the crime indicate consciousness of guilt?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Tyrone M. (In re Tyrone M.), B242523 (Cal. App. 2013):
A trier of fact is permitted to infer that a defendant's flight immediately after the commission of a crime indicates a consciousness of guilt. (People v. Mendoza (2000) 24 Cal.4th 130, 180.) Although appellant's counsel presented a plausible explanation for appellant's flight, it was within the juvenile court's exclusive province to reject that explanation as inherently incredible in light of the evidence as a whole.
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