Court Opinion

ID: 9790736
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:58:51.406068+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:31.259607
License: Public Domain

MOSK, J.
I concur in the opinion prepared for the court by Justice Arabian. His analysis is compelling. I join it readily.
I write separately merely to emphasize my view that “omitting to instruct on an element of an offense” is indeed error that is generally “reversible per se” (maj. opn., ante, at p. 428) under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution as made applicable to the states through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (E.g., People v. Hansen (1994) 9 Cal.4th 300, 328, fn. 8 [36 Cal.Rptr.2d 609, 885 P.2d 1022] (conc. & dis. opn. of Mosk, J.); People v. Johnson (1993) 6 Cal.4th 1, 59 [23 Cal.Rptr.2d 593, 859 P.2d 673] (conc. & dis. opn. of Mosk, J.); see, e.g., People v. Wims (1995) 10 Cal.4th 293, 317 [41 Cal.Rptr.2d 241, 895 P.2d 77] (conc. & dis. opn. of Mosk, J.); People v. Harris (1994) 9 Cal.4th 407, 451, fn. 3 [37 Cal.Rptr.2d 200, 886 P.2d 1193] (conc. & dis. opn. of Mosk, J.).)