PEOPLE v. KIRKPATRICK

Docket No. S004642. Crim. No. 23921.

7 Cal.4th 988 (1994)

874 P.2d 248

30 Cal. Rptr.2d 818

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 13, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Harvey R. Zall and Fern M. Laethem, State Public Defenders, and Edward J. Horowitz, under appointments by the Supreme Court, Christine Zilius Mason, Musawwir Spiegel, George L. Mertens and Albert W. Brodie, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Steve White, Richard B. Iglehart and George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Edward T. Fogel, Jr., and Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorneys General, Marc Alan Hart, Gary R. Hahn, Donald E. de Nicola, William R. Weisman, William T. Harter, Marc E. Turchin, Susan Lee Frierson and Robert C. Schneider, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

KENNARD, J.

Defendant William Kirkpatrick appeals 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). A jury convicted defendant of two counts of first degree murder (§ 187), two counts of robbery (§ 211), and two counts of burglary (§ 459). The jury found as special circumstances that defendant...

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