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PEOPLE v. ARMENDARIZ

Docket No. Crim. 21956.

37 Cal.3d 573 (1984)

693 P.2d 243

209 Cal. Rptr. 664

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOSEPH MARIO ARMENDARIZ, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 17, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir and Frank O. Bell, Jr., State Public Defenders, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Thomas F. Lundy, Deputy State Public Defender, and Musawwir Spiegel for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Daniel J. Kremer, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, Garrett Beaumont and Robert D. Marshall, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BIRD, C.J.

This is an automatic appeal from a judgment imposing a penalty of death under the 1978 death penalty law. (Pen. Code, § 190.1 et seq.; see Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)1

Appellant, Joseph Armendariz, was charged with killing Joe Velasquez, the father of his common law wife Alice Velasquez. The prosecution contended that appellant killed Velasquez during the commission...

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