WERDEGAR, J., Dissenting. My colleagues hold that defendant’s conduct in soliciting the murder of his sister, reaching an agreement with a hired assassin to do the killing, and making a downpayment under the agreement establishes probable cause to believe defendant himself attempted the murder. I respectfully dissent. “An attempt to commit a crime consists of two elements: a specific intent to commit the crime, and a direct but inef…
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