PEOPLE v. DANKS

No. S032146.

8 Cal.Rptr.3d 767 (2004)

82 P.3d 1249

32 Cal.4th 269

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Joseph Martin DANKS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing April 14, 2004.

Certiorari Denied November 1, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Musawwir Spiegel, Sacramento; Lynne S. Coffin, State Public Defender, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Eric L. Christoffersen and Lloyd G. Carter, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


Certiorari Denied November 1, 2004. See 125 S.Ct. 441.

BROWN, J.

A jury found defendant Joseph Martin Danks guilty of the first degree murder of Walter Holt (Pen.Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 189),1 and, based on the same attack, of assault by a person serving a life sentence, with force likely to produce great bodily injury which resulted in death (§ 4500). In a separate proceeding, the jury found true the special circumstance...

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