[Download] "People V. Easley" by Supreme Court Of California # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: People V. Easley
- Author : Supreme Court Of California
- Release Date : January 07, 1983
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 80 KB
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This is an automatic appeal from a judgment imposing a penalty of death. (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. (b).)*fn1 We filed an initial opinion in this case on December 10, 1982, but before the opinion became final (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 24(a)), the State Public Defender filed an amicus curiae brief which brought to our attention a number of significant legal issues that had not been raised by defense counsel or the Attorney General and had not been addressed in the court's opinion. Recognizing that in death penalty cases the provisions of section 1239, subdivision (b) impose "a duty upon this court 'to make an examination of the complete record of the proceedings . . . to the end that it be ascertained whether defendant was given a fair trial'" (italics added) (People v. Stanworth (1969) 71 Cal. 2d 820, 833