PEOPLE v. GORDON

Docket No. S004684. Crim. No. 24551.

50 Cal.3d 1223 (1990)

792 P.2d 251

270 Cal. Rptr. 451

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. PATRICK BRUCE GORDON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 21, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Frank O. Bell, Jr., Harvey Zall and Fern M. Laetham, State Public Defenders, and Monica Knox, Acting State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Dee A. Hayashi and Michael Tanaka, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edmund D. McMurray, Lisbeth M.P. Bellet and Ward A. Campbell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

This is an automatic appeal (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b)) from a judgment of death under the 1978 death penalty law (id., § 190.1 et seq.).

Together with his brothers, Bernard Patrick Gordon (hereafter Bernard) and Michael Eugene Caputo (hereafter Michael), defendant Patrick Bruce Gordon was charged with conspiracy (Pen. Code, § 182) to commit murder (id., § 187) and robbery...

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