PEOPLE v. PINHOLSTER

Docket No. S004616. Crim. No. 23781.

1 Cal.4th 865 (1992)

824 P.2d 571

4 Cal. Rptr.2d 765

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. SCOTT LYNN PINHOLSTER, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

February 20, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

William B. Chapman, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Rogers, Joseph, O'Donnell & Quinn, Mark A. White, Kyra A. Subbotin and Connie M. Teevan for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Richard B. Iglehart and George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Edward T. Fogel, and Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorneys General, Thomas L. Willhite, Jr., William T. Harter and Kristofer Jorstad, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

Defendant Scott Lynn Pinholster was convicted by a jury of first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187)1 of Thomas Johnson and Robert Beckett. The jury found true two multiple-murder special-circumstance allegations (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(3)) and allegations that each murder was committed during the perpetration of a robbery and a burglary. (§ 190.2, subds. (a)(17)(i) & (vii...

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