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PEOPLE v. THOMAS

Nos. A129933, A136593.

218 Cal.App.4th 630 (2013)

160 Cal. Rptr. 3d 468

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMIE THOMAS, Defendant and Appellant. In re JAMIE THOMAS on Habeas Corpus.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Three.

August 1, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Alan Glick , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler , Assistant Attorney General, Catherine A. Rivlin and Michael Chamberlain , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

SIGGINS, J. —

In May 2012, this court decided that defendant Jamie Thomas was properly convicted of second degree murder. In reaching our conclusion, we rejected Thomas's claims that the prosecution excluded potential jurors on the basis of their race and that the court erred when it admitted certain evidence of rap lyrics authored by Thomas into evidence. We also held that the trial court's refusal to instruct the jury on provocation...

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