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STONE v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 31395.

31 Cal.3d 503 (1982)

646 P.2d 809

183 Cal. Rptr. 647

CLIFFORD STONE, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

June 1, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Milton J. Silverman for Petitioner.

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, Lisa Short, Deputy State Public Defender, Carl Yaeckel and Frank X. Nageotte as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Edwin L. Miller, Jr., District Attorney, Richard D. Huffman, Chief Deputy District Attorney, Paul M. Morley, Hugh E. McManus and Terry J. Scott, Deputy District Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Daniel J. Kremer, Assistant Attorney General, A. Wells Petersen, Steven V. Adler and Pat Zaharopoulos, Deputy Attorneys General, John K. Van de Kamp, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Harry B. Sondheim and Richard W. Gerry, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

That no criminal defendant should be twice forced to bear the risk of conviction for a single offense is a basic precept of our system of criminal justice. From this deceptively simple premise is derived much of the complex, rapidly expanding body of law implementing the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy.

The murder case at bar presents four issues...

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