Legal Opinion
People v. Turner
California Supreme Court
Decided November 1, 2004No. S009038PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BROWN, J.
Defendant Richard Dean Turner appeals from his sentence of death under the 1978 death penalty law imposed on retrial after this court reversed the original judgment of death in People v. Turner (1984) 37 Cal.3d 302 [208 Cal.Rptr. 196, 690 P.2d 669] (Turner I).
In Turner I, a jury had convicted defendant of the first degree murders of Merle and Freda Claxton (Pen. Code, § 187), 1 found true the “[sjpecial circumstance allegations that the murders were committed during [the] commission of [a] burglary (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)) and that [defendant] was convicted of more than one…
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