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PEOPLE v. BENAVIDES

No. F037844.

120 Cal.Rptr.2d 755 (2002)

99 Cal.App.4th 100

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Vicente Figueroa BENAVIDES, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

June 7, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Arnold 0. Overoye, Assistant Attorney General, and Brian R. Means, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Michael Laurence, Cristina Borde, Melissa Hooper; Lynne S. Coffin, State Public Defender, and Kent Barkhurst, Deputy State Public Defender, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Respondent.

OPINION

VARTABEDIAN, Acting P.J.

In 1993, Vicente Figueroa Benavides was found guilty of first degree murder with special circumstances and sentenced to death. An automatic appeal to the California Supreme Court followed. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)1 The Supreme Court appointed appellate counsel to handle his appeal and later, in 1999, appointed the Habeas Corpus Resource Center his counsel in this proceeding, to represent...

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