PEOPLE v. HAMILTON

Docket No. S004399. Crim. No. 22311.

46 Cal.3d 123 (1988)

756 P.2d 1348

249 Cal. Rptr. 320

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BILLY RAY HAMILTON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

July 28, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Frank O. Bell, Jr., State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Musawwir Spiegel, Deputy State Public Defender, and Louis N. Hiken for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Herbert F. Wilkinson, Edmund D. McMurray, Ronald S. Prager and Ward D. Campbell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Kent S. Scheidegger and Lon Hamburger as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

This is an automatic appeal (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b)) from a judgment of death imposed under the 1978 death penalty law (id., § 190.1 et seq.).

Defendant was convicted in three counts of the first degree murders of Josephine Rocha, Douglas White, and Bryon Schletewitz (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 189), in one count of the attempted robbery of Schletewitz (id., §§ 211...

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