PEOPLE v. JONES

Docket No. S004457. Crim No. 22700.

13 Cal.4th 535 (1996)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. TROY LEE JONES, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 27, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Frank O. Bell, Jr., State Public Defender, Richard L. Phillips and Charles M. Bonneau, under appointments by the Supreme Court, and Monica Knox, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

Melissa W. Johnson as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp and Daniel E. Lungren, Attorneys General, Steve White and George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, Michael T. Garcia, Edmund D. McMurray, Ward A. Campbell, W. Scott Thorpe and Clayton S. Tanaka, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GEORGE, C.J.

Following the guilt phase of a jury trial, the jury found defendant Troy Lee Jones guilty of first degree murder (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 189),1 and found true both the allegation of personal use of a firearm in the commission of the offense (§ 12022.5) and the special circumstance that the murder was committed for the purpose of preventing the victim from testifying in a...

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