This is an automatic appeal from a judgment of death (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b)) imposed under the 1978 death penalty law (id., § 190.1 et seq.).
Defendant was convicted on a jury's verdict of the following offenses committed on or about November 7, 1979: the murder (Pen. Code, § 187) and rape (id., § 261, subd. (2)) of Joni Donnell Kelley, and conspiracy to commit that...
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