Tomorrow morning, the Supreme Court will file its opinion in People v. Reyes. (Briefs here; oral argument video here.)
This will be the last opinion for cases argued on the April calendar.
Reyes is another case concerning possible resentencing under Senate Bill 1437, which limited criminal liability for felony murder or murder under the natural-and-probable-consequences doctrine. After the court granted review in October 2021, it limited the issues to: “1. Does substantial evidence support the conclusion that petitioner acted with implied malice? 2. Does substantial evidence support the conclusion that petitioner’s actions constituted murder or aided and abetted murder?” Soon before oral argument, the court told the parties to “be prepared to discuss whether the trial court correctly understood the requirements of implied malice murder under either a direct perpetrator or an aiding and abetting theory and whether, if the trial court did not correctly understand these requirements, any such misunderstanding was prejudicial.”
The opinion can be viewed tomorrow starting at 10:00 a.m.