People v. Hill
Annotate this CaseDuring a custody dispute between estranged spouses Rosa and Eric, Rosa and her mother, Mei Li, broke into the home of Eric’s grandmother, shot and killed the grandmother, and attempted to kill Eric. Both were convicted of felony murder and premeditated attempted murder in the course of a burglary, while armed with firearms. The court of appeal reversed Mei Li’s murder conviction, finding the instruction the trial court gave on the scope of aider and abettor liability for felony murder was incomplete and misleading. The court otherwise affirmed, rejecting challenges to admission of a pretrial statement and the handling of a question from the jury during deliberations; claims of prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel; claims that the evidence was insufficient to support the attempted murder conviction; and claims of cumulative error.
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