Does the trial court have instructed on accident for an aider/abettor theory of felony murder under the felony murder special circumstance?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Cardenas, C069229 (Cal. App. 2018):
Even assuming for the sake of argument that the trial court should have instructed on accident for an aider/abettor theory of felony murder special circumstance, any error was clearly harmless, even under defendant's proposed standard of prejudice calling for reversal unless error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. (People v. Flood (1998)
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