PEOPLE v. HALL

Docket No. Crim. 21070.

28 Cal.3d 143 (1980)

616 P.2d 826

167 Cal. Rptr. 844

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ROBERT EDWARD HALL et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

September 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Kyle Gee, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendants and Appellants.

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, and William Wesley Patton, Deputy State Public Defender, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant Hall.

Eveile J. Younger and George Deukmejian, Attorneys General, Jack R. Winkler and Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, Derald E. Granberg, Eugene W. Kaster, Robert R. Granucci, Ronald E. Niver and John H. Sugiyama, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BIRD, C.J.

This court must decide whether the trial court's refusal to accept a criminal defendant's admission of a prior felony conviction was reversible error. A separate issue concerns the failure of a codefendant's attorney to move for severance of his client's trial.

I

Appellants, Robert Edward Hall and Stanley Edward Nichols, were charged by information with the joint commission of a robbery (Pen. Code...

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