Can a jury infer that shooting was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of an attempted burglary?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Sanchez, B246346 (Cal. App. 2014):

in the crime was likely to be armed with a firearm. A rational trier of fact could infer from this evidence that the shooting offenses were a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the attempted burglary. (See generally People v. Loza (2012) 207 Cal.App.4th 332, 346 ["in determining the sufficiency of the evidence to support a guilty verdict, 'the relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt' [Citation.]"].)

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