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PEOPLE v. POTTER

Docket No. 16315.

77 Cal.App.3d 45 (1978)

143 Cal. Rptr. 379

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. WILLIAM GAIL POTTER, Defendant and Appellant.

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

January 24, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Paul N. Halvonik, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Clifton R. Jeffers, Chief Assistant State Public Defender, Michael G. Millman, Philip M. Brooks and Phyllis J. Hamilton, 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, William D. Stern and Clifford K. Thompson, Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

CHRISTIAN, J.

William Gail Potter appeals from a judgment of imprisonment which was rendered after a jury found him guilty of forcible rape (Pen. Code, § 261).

Appellant was arrested shortly after he had, while intoxicated, broken into an apartment where he beat, raped and committed sodomy upon a mentally retarded and partially blind woman.

Appellant testified that a woman invited him into her room and...

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