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PEOPLE v. BENSON

Docket No. S004763. Crim. No. 26387.

52 Cal.3d 754 (1990)

802 P.2d 330

276 Cal. Rptr. 827

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RICHARD ALLEN BENSON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 31, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Harvey Zall and Fern M. Laetham, State Public Defenders, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Larry Pizarro, Michael Tanaka and Kendall Goh, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Richard B. Iglehart, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward T. Fogel, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, John R. Gorey and Robert D. Breton, 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 et seq.).

On April 1, 1986, the District Attorney of San Luis Obispo County filed an information against defendant Richard Allen Benson. As subsequently amended, the information contained the following charges and allegations.

Offenses and accompanying...

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