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PEOPLE v. WILLIAMS

Docket No. A036459.

197 Cal.App.3d 1320 (1988)

243 Cal. Rptr. 480

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. HENRY WILLIAMS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Five.

January 28, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Frank O. Bell, Jr., State Public Defender, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, and Catalina Lozano, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorney General, Herbert F. Wilkinson and Karl S. Mayer, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]

OPINION

KING, J.

In this case we hold that when a court-appointed psychiatrist examines a defendant for the purpose of testifying in the sanity phase of a bifurcated trial, defendant's constitutional privilege against self-incrimination is violated by allowing the psychiatrist to testify in the guilt phase that defendant confessed his guilt during the...

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