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PEOPLE v. VELASQUEZ

Docket No. Crim. 20834.

26 Cal.3d 425 (1980)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. NICK RAMON VELASQUEZ, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

February 1, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Donald L.A. Kerson and Monica Knox, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow and Howard J. Schwab, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

This case arises under the 1977 death penalty legislation (Stats. 1977, ch. 316, pp. 1256-1266) since superseded by the 1978 initiative currently codified as Penal Code sections 190 to 190.5. Defendant1 was charged and convicted of the first degree murder of Mario Casas. The jury found two special circumstances: that the murder of Casas was willful, deliberate, premeditated, and personally...

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