In an appeal from the denial of a PC 1172.6 petition, the Court of Appeal remanded for the trial court to clarify its findings regarding how it reconciled the required mental state for aiding and abetting implied malice murder with the court’s acknowledged possibility that appellant – a then 16-year-old runaway under the control of the actual killer, a man twice his age who raped a prostituted him – thought he was a participant in a vicious head game when the offense was committed.
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