PEOPLE v. ARCEGA

Docket No. Crim. 21423.

32 Cal.3d 504 (1982)

651 P.2d 338

186 Cal. Rptr. 94

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. VINCENT M. ARCEGA, JR., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

September 30, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Roderick P. Bushnell, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Bushnell, Caplan, Fielding & Rudy for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, William R. Pounders and Robert F. Katz, 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

Appellant, Vincent M. Arcega, Jr., was accused of the first degree murders of Marilyn Milner and Leila Blessing, also known as Julie Blessing. (§§ 187, 189.) A special circumstance was alleged as to each count...

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