P. v. Gill
Monty Lyle Gill, defendant, was placed on formal probation following a conviction for vehicular manslaughter (Pen. Code, 192, subd. (c)(1)), 10 years after a motor vehicle collision which left the victim in a persistent vegetative state. The accident, arising from a high speed race between defendant and a third party, occurred in 1996.
Defendant claims the prosecution and conviction were barred because a 1997 amendment to Penal Code section 194, which went into effect after the collision but before the victim died, changed an element (causation) of the crime of homicide for which prosecution was barred. Court disagree and affirm.
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