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PEOPLE v. ODLE

Docket No. Crim. 23254.

45 Cal.3d 386 (1988)

754 P.2d 184

247 Cal. Rptr. 137

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES RICHARD ODLE, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

May 19, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Jonathan Matthew Purver, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Eric S. Multhaup as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant. John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward P. O'Brien and John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorneys General, Herbert F. Wilkinson and Blair W. Hoffman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

LUCAS, C.J.

Defendant James Richard Odle was convicted of the first degree murder of Rena Aguilar, and the first degree murder of Floyd "Bernie" Swartz. The jury found defendant personally used a deadly and dangerous weapon (a knife) in the Aguilar murder, and that he personally used a firearm in the Swartz murder. With respect to the Aguilar murder, the jury found true one multiple-murder special circumstance (Pen. Code,...

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