(CN) — The California Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court’s decision denying the reconsideration of resentencing for a man convicted of first-degree murder in 2013, ruling that under a new law, a defendant must have aided or abetted the actual killer in the murder itself to be liable.
“We interpret the statutory language to mean just what it says: The phrase ‘aided … or assisted the actual killer in the commission of murder in the first degree’ requires proof the defendant aided or abetted the actual killer in the lethal act itself and not just the underlying felony,” Justice Joshua Groban wrote for the majority.
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