P. v. Pinckney CA2/4
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Charlaine F. Olmedo, Judge. Affirmed.
Vanessa Place, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey, Assistant Attorney General, Amanda V. Lopez and Idan Ivri, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
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In 2008, a jury convicted appellant Timothy Pinckney of first degree murder under the felony murder doctrine, but found not true a rape-murder special circumstance allegation. In 2019, appellant petitioned for resentencing under Penal Code section 1172.6 (former section 1170.95), arguing he was not the actual killer and had not acted with intent to kill; he further argued that there was insufficient evidence he was a major participant in the crime who acted with reckless indifference to human life. (See generally People v. Banks (2015) 61 Cal.4th 788 (Ba
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