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PEOPLE v. SPEARS

Docket No. Crim. 22083.

33 Cal.3d 279 (1983)

655 P.2d 1289

188 Cal. Rptr. 454

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MARTY DON SPEARS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

January 20, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, and Mark L. Christiansen, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, James T. McNally, Gregory W. Baugher and Wanda Hill Rouzan, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

In People v. Davis (1981) 29 Cal.3d 814, 827-832 [176 Cal.Rptr. 521, 633 P.2d 186], we held as a matter of statutory construction that the former death penalty law (Stats. 1977, ch. 316, p. 1255) did not authorize imposing the sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole on...

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