People v. Superior Court

In the earlier case People v. Taylor, Taylor waited in a getaway car while co-defendants Daniels and Smith robbed a liquor store at gunpoint; a gun battle broke out and the store owners killed Smith, after which Taylor was charged with Smith's murder on a vicarious-liability theory. Daniels had already been acquitted of that same murder before Taylor's trial, and the Taylor court held collateral estoppel barred trying Taylor for the identical killing. Confronting a case with very similar facts here, the California Supreme Court directed the parties to brief whether Taylor should be overruled.