PEOPLE v. ASTON

Docket No. Crim. 24401.

39 Cal.3d 481 (1985)

703 P.2d 111

216 Cal. Rptr. 771

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN G. ASTON et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

August 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Arnold Breyer, Breyer, Aiello & Aiello and Mark T. Susnow for Defendants and Appellants.

John K. Van de Kamp and George Deukmejian, Attorneys General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, Garrett Beaumont, J. Robert Jibson, William George Prahl, Thomas Greene and Patricia C. Esgro, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Ira Reiner, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Harry B. Sondheim and Patrick D. Moran, Deputy District Attorneys, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BIRD, C.J.

The primary issue in this case is whether D-cocaine, a synthetic form of cocaine, was a controlled substance under Health and Safety Code section 11055, subdivision (b)(4) at the time appellants committed their crime.

I.

During the early months of 1980, law enforcement officers from the California Department of Justice and local police and sheriff departments conducted an extensive investigation...

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