People v. Gott

Opinion

HOPPER, Acting P. J.

Appellant (Gott), convicted of murder, appeals contending the judgment should be reversed because the trial court erred (1) in denying Gott’s motion to exclude evidence of an interview conducted at the jail after a deputy public defender was denied access to Gott, (2) in failing to instruct the jury on imperfect self-defense, and (3) in failing to award good-time/work-time conduct credits.

Discussion of the contentions does not require a detailed account of the facts of the murder. The pertinent facts may be summarized as follows:

On May 1, 1978, Gott was lawfully…