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PEOPLE v. ALCALA

Docket No. S004724. Crim. No. 25693.

4 Cal.4th 742 (1992)

842 P.2d 1192

15 Cal. Rptr.2d 432

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RODNEY JAMES ALCALA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 31, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Marshall Warren Krause and Joseph Baxter, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel Lungren, Attorneys General, Steve White and Richard B. Iglehart, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Harley D. Mayfield, Assistant Attorney General, Michael D. Wellington, Robert M. Foster and Louis R. Hanoian, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

GEORGE, J.

This case reaches us again after a retrial following this court's reversal of defendant's convictions. At the initial trial in 1980, a jury found defendant Rodney James Alcala guilty of first degree murder, with a kidnapping-murder special circumstance, and other related offenses. Following the jury's penalty-phase verdict, defendant was sentenced to death. In reversing defendant's convictions, this court concluded...

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