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PEOPLE v. HARRIS

Docket No. 17337.

85 Cal.App.3d 954 (1978)

149 Cal. Rptr. 860

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MELVIN HARRIS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

October 30, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Paul N. Halvonik and Quin Denvir, State Public Defenders, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Clifton R. Jeffers, Chief Assistant State Public Defender, Dennis P. Riordan, Isadora W. Lomhoff and David Lew, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorney General, Timothy A. Reardon and Herbert F. Wilkinson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

ELKINGTON, J.

Defendant Melvin Harris was convicted, on a jury's verdicts, of 15 assorted criminal offenses. His victims were five young boys, aged nine to thirteen. Each of the boys testified that Harris had induced or forced him to enter an automobile (three said it was a "white automobile") which was then driven to a secluded building or other area where at knife point, or threat of shooting, Harris compelled him to submit...

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