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PEOPLE v. YATES

Docket No. Crim. 22817.

34 Cal.3d 644 (1983)

669 P.2d 1

194 Cal. Rptr. 765

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. TITUS EDWARD YATES, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

September 8, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, and Alice V. Collins, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

Clyde M. Blackmon as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian and John K. Van de Kamp, Attorneys General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, William D. Stein and Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorneys General, W. Eric Collins and Thomas A. Brady, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Neal P. McCaslin, District Attorney (Solano), Michael E. Nail, District Attorney (Elect), and John R. Vance, Jr., Deputy District Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BROUSSARD, J.

Defendant appeals from a conviction for first degree murder, claiming that he was improperly denied his right to 26 peremptory challenges under Penal Code section 1070. This section, one of the provisions in the original Penal Code of 1872,1 provides in subdivision (a) that "[i]f the offense charged be punishable with death, or with imprisonment in the state prison for life, the defendant...

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