What are the legal principles and legal principles required for the jury to consider an aiding and abetting theory of liability?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Perez, F069418 (Cal. App. 2016):
concisely, on ' "general legal principles raised by the evidence and necessary for the jury's understanding of the case" ' [citation]. In particular, instructions delineating an aiding and abetting theory of liability must be given when such derivative culpability 'form[s] a part of the prosecution's theory of criminal liability and substantial evidence supports the theory.' [Citation.]" (People v. Delgado (2013) 56 Cal.4th 480, 488.)
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