California Felony Murder Rule: Man to Stand Trial After Girlfriend Was Shot by Deputy in Corona Struggle

RIVERSIDE (CNS) – A San Diego County man accused of assaulting a sheriff‘s deputy and trying to grab the lawman’s gun during a confrontation in Corona, culminating in the defendant’s girlfriend being fatally shot, must stand trial for murder under a California’s felony murder law, a judge ruled Friday.

Eric John Nourani, 35, was arrested in 2024 after the shooting that took the life of 30-year-old Jennifer Rose Dobbins of Imperial Beach.

Following a two-day preliminary hearing that concluded Friday, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Mary Fuller found there was sufficient evidence to bind Nourani over for trial on the murder count, as well as attempted murder, mayhem, resisting arrest, and obstructing a law enforcement officer resulting in great bodily injury…

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