PEOPLE v. MICKLE

Docket No. S004708. Crim. Nos. 25377, 25540.

54 Cal.3d 140 (1991)

814 P.2d 290

284 Cal. Rptr. 511

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DENNY MICKLE, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 19, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Fern M. Laethem, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Roy M. Dahlberg, Musawwir M. Spiegel, Thomas L. Carroll and John Fresquez, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Richard B. Iglehart, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald S. Matthias, Morris Beatus, Aileen Bunney and Edward P. O'Brien, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BAXTER, J.

Defendant Denny Mickle was convicted of one count of first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187)1 with personal use of a knife (§ 12022, subd. (b)), and arson (§ 451, subd. (b)). Under the 1978 death penalty law, the jury found true a special circumstance that the murder occurred while defendant was engaged in the commission of a lewd and lascivious act upon a minor. (§...

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