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PEOPLE v. MODESTO

Docket No. Crim. 10267.

66 Cal.2d 695 (1967)

427 P.2d 788

59 Cal. Rptr. 124

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LAWRENCE GLENN MODESTO, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

May 23, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell E. Parsons, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, and Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

TOBRINER, J.

For the third time, a jury has found defendant guilty of the first degree murders of Connie and Mary Mack and has fixed the penalty at death.1 This appeal is automatic. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)

The record before us suggests seven possible bases for reversing the judgment below. After careful examination, we find them all to be without merit.

We examine here the contentions (1) that the trial court...

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