PEOPLE v. ODOM

Docket No. 9526.

236 Cal.App.2d 876 (1965)

46 Cal. Rptr. 453

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DOCK ODOM, JR., et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

August 31, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dock Odom, Jr., in pro. per., and Luke McKissack, under appointment by the District Court of Appeal, for Defendants and Appellants.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and S. Clark Moore, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


FLEMING, J.

This case is before us for the second time by reason of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Griffin v. California, 380 U.S. 609 [85 S.Ct. 1229, 14 L.Ed.2d 106], holding invalid, under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, article I, section 13, of the state Constitution, which permitted comment on an accused's failure to testify on his own behalf.

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