This petition, brought by a defendant being tried for only one murder, challenges the trial court's failure to dismiss the special circumstance allegation that the defendant "has in this proceeding been convicted of more than one offense of murder in the first or second degree." (Pen. Code, § 190.2, subd. (a)(3).) The present incongruity arose because petitioner successfully moved to sever two murder charges...
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