PEOPLE v. TAYLOR

Docket No. 3989.

112 Cal.App.3d 348 (1980)

169 Cal. Rptr. 290

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DENNIS GENE TAYLOR, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

November 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Ezra Hendon, Chief Assistant State Public Defender, Tom Lundy, Michele Vague and Steven W. Parnes, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, James T. McNally, Eddie T. Keller and Lisa Lewis Dubois, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

HOPPER, J.

In this case we consider several issues with respect to the second degree felony-murder rule (where furnishing of heroin is the underlying felony), the applicability of the accomplice rule, an alleged Miranda violation and asserted error in the exclusion of evidence on suicide. We conclude that reversible error took place by the exclusion of the evidence of declarations on suicide. The other contentions by...

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