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PEOPLE v. CEJA

Docket No. S026136.

4 Cal.4th 1134 (1993)

847 P.2d 55

17 Cal. Rptr.2d 375

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ENRIQUE CHAVEZ CEJA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

March 18, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Fern M. Laethem, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Jeanne Wolf and Douglas G. Ward, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama and Ronald A. Bass, Assistant Attorneys General, Stan M. Helfman and Sharon G. Birenbaum, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

ARABIAN, J.

Defendant was convicted of first degree murder. The jury was allowed to consider two theories of first degree murder: (1) a deliberate and premeditated killing; and (2) murder by means of lying in wait. The Court of Appeal found insufficient evidence to support the theory of lying in wait and therefore reversed the conviction. We granted review to determine whether there...

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