PEOPLE v. SILBERMAN

Docket Nos. A043191, A042938.

212 Cal.App.3d 1099 (1989)

261 Cal. Rptr. 45

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DAVID RUSSELL SILBERMAN et al., Defendants and Appellants.

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

August 3, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

James R. Jenner, Public Defender, David R. Feld, Assistant Public Defender, and Jay E. Goodman for Defendants and Appellants.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorney General, Martin S. Kaye and Ronald E. Niver, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]

OPINION

POCHE, Acting P.J.

One of the limited number of special circumstance crimes for which the death penalty is authorized is intentional murder "carried out for financial gain." (Pen. Code, § 190.2, subd. (a)(1).)1 The primary issue presented on these appeals is whether persons who kill in order to prevent discovery...

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