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PEOPLE v. MYERS

Docket No. Crim. 21991.

43 Cal.3d 250 (1987)

729 P.2d 698

233 Cal. Rptr. 264

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. VENSON LANE MYERS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

January 2, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Frank O. Bell, Jr., State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Donald L.A. Kerson and Michael Tanaka, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, William R. Weisman, Thomas L. Willhite, Jr., and John R. Gorey, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

GRODIN, J.

In January 1979, defendant Venson Lane Myers, along with several accomplices, committed two armed robberies of liquor stores, three weeks apart. During the second robbery, defendant shot both the store clerk and a patron, killing the patron. On the basis of these two incidents, a jury convicted defendant of one count of first degree murder (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 189),1 one count...

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