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PEOPLE v. COLEMAN

Docket No. S004397. Crim. No. 22190.

48 Cal.3d 112 (1989)

768 P.2d 32

255 Cal. Rptr. 813

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. CALVIN COLEMAN, JR., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

March 2, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John McDougall, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Derald E. Granberg and Mark S. Howell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

KAUFMAN, J.

Defendant Calvin Coleman, Jr., was sentenced to death, after a jury trial under the 1978 death penalty law,1 for murdering Patricia Neidig on May 13, 1980, under three special circumstances, i.e., that he committed the murder (1) for the purpose of avoiding or preventing lawful arrest (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(5)), (2) in the commission of a robbery (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(i)),...

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