Legal Opinion
People v. Allen
California Supreme Court
Decided August 19, 1999No. S054125PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WERDEGAR, J.
We held in People v. Sumstine (1984) 36 Cal.3d 909 [206 Cal.Rptr. 707, 687 P.2d 904] (Sumstine) that a criminal defendant, charged with having suffered.a prior felony conviction, may move in the trial court to strike the alleged prior conviction on the ground the trial court in the prior proceeding failed to observe the defendant’s Boykin-Tahl rights. (Boykin v. Alabama (1969) 395 U.S. 238 [89 S.Ct. 1709, 23 L.Ed.2d 274] *427(Boykin); In re Tahl (1969) 1 Cal.3d 122 [81 Cal.Rptr. 577, 460 P.2d 449] (Tahl).) Ten years after Sumstine, the United States Supreme Court held the…
2Cases cited50 opinions
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- North Carolina v. AlfordSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Gideon v. WainwrightSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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3Cited by52 opinions
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