PEOPLE v. LANG

Docket No. S004655. Crim. No. 24257.

49 Cal.3d 991 (1989)

782 P.2d 627

264 Cal. Rptr. 386

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. KENNETH BURTON LANG, JR., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 7, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Richard L. Phillips, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Michele Vague for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White and Richard B. Iglehart, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Edward T. Fogel, Jr.,

Assistant Attorney General, Marc E. Turchin, Thomas L. Willhite, Jr., and David F. Glassman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

KAUFMAN, J.

This appeal is from a judgment of death under the 1978 death penalty law (Pen. Code, § 190.1 et seq.; all further statutory references are to this code unless otherwise indicated). Defendant Kenneth Burton Lang, Jr., was convicted by a jury of the first degree murder (§ 187) and robbery (§ 211) of Thurman Anderson. The jury found as a special circumstance that the murder was committed in the perpetration...

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