Is a failure to instruct on accomplice liability harmless?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Johnson, C076191, C076607 (Cal. App. 2020):
Failure to instruct on accomplice liability is harmless if there is sufficient corroborating evidence in the record. (People v. Lewis (2001) 26 Cal.4th 334, 370.) Corroborating evidence may be slight, may be entirely circumstantial, and need not be
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