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PEOPLE v. WRIGHT

Docket No. Crim. 23685.

39 Cal.3d 576 (1985)

703 P.2d 1106

217 Cal. Rptr. 212

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. STANLEY WRIGHT, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 15, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Mark E. Cutler, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Jon P. Beaver, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Eddie T. Keller, W. Scott Thorpe, Charles P. Just and Clayton S. Tanaka, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

MOSK, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of first degree murder. He contends (1) evidence that the victim had heroin in his system within 24 hours before his death was improperly excluded under Evidence Code section 352; (2) evidence that the victim was under the influence of heroin when he violently resisted arrest in 1979 was improperly excluded; (3) the jury was erroneously instructed on the elements of...

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