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PEOPLE v. EVANS

No. S141357.

44 Cal.4th 590 (2008)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. BLAINE ALLEN EVANS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

July 24, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Doctoroff, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Mary Jo Graves, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Ryan B. McCarroll, Linda M. Murphy and David M. Baskind, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

KENNARD, J.

California law requires that in a criminal case a trial court must, before imposing sentence, ask the defendant whether there is "any legal cause to show why judgment should not be pronounced against him." (Pen. Code, § 1200.)1 This inquiry is called the "allocution."2 At issue is whether, in response to the allocution, the defendant has the right to make an unsworn...

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