Felony-Murder Conviction Stands in Slaying of Off-Duty L.A. Sheriff’s Department Deputy

Div. One of this district’s Court of Appeal has affirmed an order denying a petition for resentencing filed by a man who aided in an attempted robbery during which a co-conspirator fatally shot an off-duty deputy, with the justices rejecting the contention that the decedent did not qualify as a “peace officer”—for purposes of a statutory carve-out to the legislation virtually abolishing the felony-murder rule—because she served in a custodial assignment.