PEOPLE v. TURNER

Docket No. S006229.

8 Cal.4th 137 (1994)

878 P.2d 521

32 Cal. Rptr.2d 762

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MELVIN TURNER, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Edward J. Horowitz, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Adrienne Dell for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, Robert S. Henry, Susan Lee Frierson, Linda C. Johnson, Sharon Wooden Richard and William H. Davis, Jr., Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

ARABIAN, J.

This case reaches us again after a retrial following this court's reversal of defendant's conviction and death sentence. In reversing, we concluded that the prosecution failed to sustain its burden of showing that the challenged prospective jurors were not excluded because of group bias, and the trial court failed to discharge its duty to inquire into and carefully evaluate the prosecutor's proffered explanations...

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