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PEOPLE v. ZIMMERMAN

Docket No. Crim. 21858.

36 Cal.3d 154 (1984)

680 P.2d 776

202 Cal. Rptr. 826

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN WILLIAM ZIMMERMAN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

May 24, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Dennis L. Cava, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Karl H. Henry for Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow and Howard J. Schwab, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Stanley M. Roden, District Attorney (Santa Barbara), and Gerald McC. Franklin, Deputy District Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of two counts of burglary, rape, and two counts of first degree murder with special circumstances, and sentencing him on the latter to life imprisonment without possibility of parole.

Because defendant does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence, we shall not dwell on the unpleasant facts of this case. It is enough for present

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