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125 Cal. Rptr. 2d 442

54 P.3d 262

Docket No. S108353.

People v. Howard

PEOPLE v. HOWARD (Evert Keith).

California Supreme Court

Decided September 11, 2002.

California Supreme Court · decided 2002-09-11

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 2005

3 state decisions

Applies CA VEH § 2800.2

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Decided 2002-09-11

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¶1Petition for review granted; issues limited (criminal case).

¶2The issues to be briefed and argued shall be limited to the following: (1) Whether the offense of driving in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property while fleeing from a pursuing police officer (Veh.Code, § 2800.2) is a felony inherently dangerous to human life for purposes of the second degree felony-murder rule and (2) Whether the offense of proximately causing death or serious bodily injury by willful flight from a pursuing police officer (Veh.Code, § 2800.3) is a more specific offense precluding application of the second degree felony-murder rule where death occurs during the offense of driving in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property while fleeing from a pursuing police officer (Veh. Code, § 2800.2).

¶3GEORGE, C.J, KENNARD, WERDEGAR, CHIN and MORENO, JJ, concur.

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