PEOPLE v. MORRIS

No. G061916.

100 Cal.App.5th 1016 (2024)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RICHARD CURTIS MORRIS, JR., Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

March 22, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Somers , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Rob Bonta , Attorney General, Lance E. Winters , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Charles C. Ragland , Assistant Attorney General, Lynne G. McGinnis and Collette C. Cavalier , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

This case calls on us to address the actus reus required to convict a nonkiller of first degree murder under the amended felony-murder statute when the nonkiller acts with an intent to kill. (Pen. Code, § 189, subd. (e)(2).) Defendant Richard Curtis Morris, Jr., previously convicted of first degree murder...

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