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PEOPLE v. MORRIS

Docket No. S004781. Crim. No. 26415.

53 Cal.3d 152 (1991)

807 P.2d 949

279 Cal. Rptr. 720

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BRUCE WAYNE MORRIS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

March 28, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Robert F. Kane, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Richard B. Iglehart, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, Edmund D. McMurray and Ward A. Campbell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

LUCAS, C.J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of death under the 1978 death penalty law (Pen. Code, § 190.1 et seq.; all further statutory references are to this code unless otherwise indicated). Following a change of venue from Sierra County to San Joaquin County, defendant Bruce Wayne Morris was convicted by a jury of the first degree murder (§ 187) and robbery (§ 211) of Rickey Van Zandt. The jury found as...

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