In re Williams CA2/3
Petitioner Tara Sheneva Williams (Williams) has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus contending that this court’s 2002 affirmance of her first-degree-murder special circumstance conviction must be reversed in view of the California Supreme Court’s decision in People v. Banks (2015) 61 Cal.4th 788 (Banks). The Banks opinion provided an authoritative explanation for the “major participant” and “reckless indifference to human life” elements of Penal Code section 190.2, subdivision (d), in the context of a felony-murder special circumstance allegation against an aider and abettor who merely acted as a getaway driver in an armed robbery.
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