P. v. Gonzalez-Astacio
A jury found defendant and appellant Carlos Gonzalez-Astacio (defendant) guilty of first degree murder. On appeal, defendant contends that the trial court committed prejudicial error by instructing the jury on felony-murder because there was insufficient evidence to support that instruction; in refusing to instruct on aiding and abetting because the evidence supported such an instruction; by denying defendants motion to suppress his confession to police; and by admitting a statement made to police by the codefendant in which the codefendant stated that defendant committed the murder. We hold that there was sufficient evidence to support the instruction on felony murder, the evidence did not warrant an aiding and abetting instruction, the defendants confession was properly admitted, and any error in the admission of his codefendants statement to police was harmless. Court therefore affirm the judgment of conviction.
Comments on P. v. Gonzalez-Astacio