Does a jury's guilty verdict on felony murder and its true finding for the robbery special circumstance necessarily resolve the factual issues related to malice murder?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Tabron, A144079 (Cal. App. 2017):
The Second District has held that a jury's guilty verdicts on felony murder and its true finding for the robbery special circumstance necessarily resolved the factual issues related to the lesser included offenses of malice murder. (People v. Gonzalez (2016) 246
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