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PEOPLE v. PENSINGER

Docket Nos. S004466, S009489. Crim. Nos. 22808, 24569.

52 Cal.3d 1210 (1991)

805 P.2d 899

278 Cal. Rptr. 640

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BRETT PATRICK PENSINGER, Defendant and Appellant. In re BRETT PATRICK PENSINGER on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

February 28, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Marvin F. Friedman and Louis M. Natali, under appointments by the Supreme Court, and Juliana Marciel for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White and Richard B. Iglehart, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Harley D. Mayfield, Assistant Attorney General, Steven H. Zeigen, Jay M. Bloom, Frederick R. Millar, Jr., and Robert M. Foster, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BROUSSARD, J.

Defendant Brett Patrick Pensinger was convicted of the first degree murder of Michelle Melander, and the jury found true special circumstance allegations that the murder was committed in the course of a kidnapping and that the murder was intentional and involved the infliction of torture. The jury found not true allegations that the murder was committed during the commission of a lewd act on a child under the...

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