Legal Opinion
People v. Hearon
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 28, 1999No. C028314PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SCOTLAND, P. J.
Before summarizing the case and addressing the other claims of error, we seek to put out of its misery a contention routinely raised in criminal appeals filed in this district, and apparently in every other district of the Court of Appeal.
In a well-worn argument that has become the soup du jour of appellate . advocacy in criminal cases, defendant Jimmy Ray Hearon claims the definition of reasonable doubt given to the jury in accordance with Penal Code section 1096 (Stats. 1995, ch. 46, § 1) and CALJIC No. 2.90 is “defective in that it gave the jury no guidance as to the…
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