People v. Sanchez
California Court of Appeal
86 Cal. App. 4th 970 (2001)
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Refugio Sanchez (defendant) led police on a high-speed chase through residential streets at 85 to 100 miles per hour while evading them, ultimately crashing and killing a passenger. He was convicted of second-degree murder on the theory that evading a police officer, a felony, was inherently dangerous to human life. He appealed.
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Whether, for second-degree felony murder, the defendant must have committed a felony that is inherently dangerous to human life based on its elements in the abstract, during which a person was killed.