PEOPLE v. EASLEY

Docket No. Crim. 21117.

34 Cal.3d 858 (1983)

671 P.2d 813

196 Cal. Rptr. 309

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ELBERT LEE EASLEY, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

November 7, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Roger S. Hanson for Defendant and Appellant.

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, Joseph Levine, Michael G. Millman, Eric S. Multhaup and Steven W. Parnes, Deputy State Public Defenders, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp and George Deukmejian, Attorneys General, Daniel J. Kremer and Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, William D. Stein and Edward P. O'Brien, Assistant Attorneys General, Herbert F. Wilkinson, W. Eric Collins, Eugene W. Kaster and John B. Moy, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Christopher N. Heard as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

KAUS, J.

This is an automatic appeal from a judgment imposing a penalty of death. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)1 We filed an initial opinion in this case on December 10, 1982, but before the opinion became final (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 24(a)), the State Public Defender filed an amicus curiae brief which brought to our attention a number of significant legal issues that had not been raised...

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