PEOPLE v. THOMPSON

Docket No. Crim. 20707.

27 Cal.3d 303 (1980)

611 P.2d 883

165 Cal. Rptr. 289

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MAURICE SETON THOMPSON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 9, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Charles M. Sevilla, Chief Assistant State Public Defender, Joseph Levine and Richard A. Curtis, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant. George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Daniel J. Kremer, Assistant Attorney General, Alan S. Meth and Steven H. Zeigen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BIRD, C.J.

This is an automatic appeal from a judgment imposing a penalty of death. (See Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)1

I

Maurice Seton Thompson was convicted by a jury of the first degree murder of Michael Whalen (§§ 187, 189), the attempted first degree murder of June Filice (§§ 664, 187, 189), the robberies of June Filice and Michael Whalen (§...

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