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PEOPLE v. COOPER

Docket No. S004687. Crim. No. 24552.

53 Cal.3d 771 (1991)

809 P.2d 865

281 Cal. Rptr. 90

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. KEVIN COOPER, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

May 6, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Mark E. Cutler, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Harley D. Mayfield, Assistant Attorney General, John W. Carney and Frederick R. Millar, Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Ira Reiner, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Harry B. Sondheim and Brentford J. Ferreira, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

ARABIAN, J.

This case, arising out of the 1978 death penalty law, chronicles the nocturnal massacre of a mother, father, daughter, and houseguest in the sanctity of their home, and the attempted murder of the young son, the only person to survive. A jury convicted defendant Kevin Cooper of four counts of first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187),1 and one count of attempted murder with the intentional...

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