People v. Coffman

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• explaining that an aider and abettor is guilty of both the offense he intended to facilitate or encourage and also of any reasonably foreseeable offense committed by the person he aids and abets
• upholding admissibility of expert testimony offered to establish defendant's state of mind that did not directly relate to pending criminal offenses but concerned abused defendant's relationship with victim
• “ ‘A statement is involuntary . . . when, among other circumstances, it was . . . obtained by any direct or implied promises, however slight.’ ” (internal quotation marks omitted
• “Because Dana’s affirmative intentional misrepresentations of fact . . . are 13 dispositive . . . , we need not address the issue of whether Dana’s intentional 14 concealment constitutes an independent tort.”
• “Even if a trial court abuses its discretion in failing to grant severance, reversal is required only upon a showing that, to a reasonable probability, the defendant would have received a more favorable result in a separate trial.”
• “ ‘A statement is involuntary . . . when, among other circumstances, it was . . . obtained by any direct or implied promises, however slight.’ ” (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting People v. Neal, 31 Cal. 4th 63, 79, 72 P.3d 280, 1 Cal. Rptr. 3d 650 (2003))

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