In a motor vehicle accident case, is a defendant not guilty of his charged crimes if he was unconscious at the time he engaged in the illegal act of wrong-way driving?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Katz, A153625 (Cal. App. 2020):
Read together, the instructions explained defendant was not guilty of his charged crimes if he was unconscious at the time he engaged in the illegal act of wrong-way driving. (Cf. People v. Galloway (1979) 100 Cal.App.3d 551, 567-568 ["The absence of an essential element in one instruction may be supplied by another or cured in light of the instructions as a whole"].) No further instruction or clarification was required.
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