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PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

Docket No. Crim. 21783.

30 Cal.3d 470 (1981)

637 P.2d 1029

179 Cal. Rptr. 443

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DERMON LOUISE WILLIAMS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 31, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Howard Goodman, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, as Amicus Curiae on behalf of 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.

Stanley M. Roden, District Attorney (Santa Barbara), and Gerald McC. Franklin, Deputy District Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BIRD, C.J.

May a trial court dismiss, pursuant to Penal Code section 1385,1 a finding of special circumstances under California's death penalty statute (§§ 190-190.5) so that a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole may be modified?

I.

Appellant was charged with one count of violating section 187 (murder...

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