PEOPLE v. CLEAVES

Docket No. D010657.

229 Cal.App.3d 367 (1991)

280 Cal. Rptr. 146

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN CLEAVES, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

April 16, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Stephen J. Perrello, Jr., under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Richard B. Iglehart, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Harley D. Mayfield, Assistant Attorney General, Rudolf Corona, Jr., and Rhonda Cartwright, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

WORK, J.

John Cleaves appeals a judgment convicting him of second degree murder (Pen. Code,1 § 187), primarily contending the court erred by failing to honor his request to instruct on a lesser related offense of aiding and abetting a suicide (§ 401). In addition, he argues we should fashion a lesser related offense of voluntary manslaughter for killings done at the request of the victim...

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