The Sacramento Bee, January 14, 2009 by Jim Sanders
http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1540180.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20and%20California
Law professor Stephen D. Sugarman … said citizens are not legally required to intervene. “Careless rescuers are not good Samaritans, really,” Sugarman said. “We don’t want people interfering with other people and hurting them a lot worse, right?”