PEOPLE v. AINSWORTH

Docket No. C006011.

217 Cal.App.3d 247 (1990)

266 Cal. Rptr. 175

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. STEVEN KING AINSWORTH, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

January 19, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Quin Denvir, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Richard B. Iglehart, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Arnold O. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, Roger E. Venturi and J. Robert Jibson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Kent S. Scheidegger and Charles L. Hobson as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

PUGLIA, P.J.

This appeal presents the question whether a trial court, after a judgment of conviction is final, has jurisdiction to rule on defendant's motion for discovery. We shall hold the trial court was without jurisdiction to entertain the motion.

In January 1980, defendant was sentenced to death following his conviction of first degree murder with special circumstances. The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment...

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