People v. Brown
California Court of Appeal, Sixth District
WL 1899400 (2005)
Relevant factsFree
Brown and his accomplice Dinino together approached and robbed two students at gunpoint, with Brown taking $50 from the car while Dinino separately made the second student feel he could not leave, and Brown was convicted of using a firearm in both the robbery of one victim and the false imprisonment of the other, challenging the false imprisonment conviction as improperly based on aiding-and-abetting liability for an offense he did not personally commit or specifically intend.
IssueFree
Whether, under the natural and probable consequences doctrine in California, a defendant may be criminally liable as an aider and abettor although he did not encourage or facilitate the offense committed.