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PEOPLE v. LEEDS

No. B243376.

240 Cal.App.4th 822 (2015)

192 Cal.Rptr.3d 906

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LEE ISAAC BEDWELL LEEDS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Six.

September 28, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jean Matulis , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris , Attorney General, Lance E. Winters , Assistant Attorney General, Shawn McGahey Webb and Gary A. Lieberman , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

A defendant accused of murder pleads not guilty by reason of insanity. He claims that his delusional state caused him to believe that he was acting in self-defense. Here we hold that an instruction on self-defense in the sanity phase must inform the jury that a defendant's delusion caused him to believe that...

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