PEOPLE v. KARIS

Docket Nos. Crim. 22786, 25929.

46 Cal.3d 612 (1988)

758 P.2d 1189

250 Cal. Rptr. 659

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES LESLIE KARIS, JR., Defendant and Appellant. In re JAMES LESLIE KARIS, JR., on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

August 29, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Frank O. Bell, Jr., State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Roy M. Dahlberg and Musawwir Spiegel, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant and Petitioner.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Roger E. Venturi, Edmund D. McMurray and Eddie T. Keller, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

EAGLESON, J.

Defendant was convicted by a jury in the Sacramento County Superior Court of the first degree murder (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 189)1 of Peggy Pennington, with special circumstances of murder in the commission of kidnapping and in the immediate flight from rape (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17) (count I);2 the attempted murder of Patricia D. (§§...

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