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PEOPLE v. ALEDAMAT

No. S248105.

8 Cal.5th 1 (2019)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. YAZAN ALEDAMAT, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 26, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrea S. Bitar , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Xavier Becerra , Attorney General, Edward C. DuMont , State Solicitor General, Gerald A. Engler , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters , Assistant Attorney General, Steve Mercer , Timothy L. O'Hair and Viet H. Nguyen , Deputy Attorneys General, and Michael R. Johnsen , Deputy State Solicitor General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Mary K. McComb , State Public Defender, Barry P. Helft , Chief Deputy State Public Defender, and Samuel Weiscovitz , Deputy State Public Defender, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

Defendant Yazan Aledamat was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, specifically a box cutter. A few objects are inherently deadly weapons. Others, including a box cutter, are deadly weapons only if used in a way that makes them deadly weapons. Here, the trial court erroneously permitted the jury to consider...

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