Legal Opinion

People v. Davis

California Court of Appeal

Decided June 7, 1989No. A039921PublishedCited by 8 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

HOLMDAHL, J.

Defendant solicited an undercover police officer to murder two persons. He complains on appeal of insufficient corroboration of the solicitation, of erroneous admission in evidence of a tape-recorded statement which he made to the police, and of multiple convictions for what was only a single act of solicitation.

The judgment is affirmed.

Statement of Facts

Viewed in a light most favorable to the People, evidence presented by the prosecutor at defendant’s trial revealed the following facts.

Defendant believed that Denise Hale and Timothy Walters had set him up and had him…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. California v. RamosSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  2. Blumenthal v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
  3. People v. MillerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1977
  4. People v. RamosCalifornia Supreme Court · 1982
  5. In re WrightCalifornia Supreme Court · 1967

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. People v. Kopp, California Court of Appeal, 5th District2019
  2. People v. Tom Cheng Hsang LiuCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1996
  3. People v. McLeadCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1990
  4. People v. LopezCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1994
  5. People v. JassoCalifornia Court of Appeal · 2006

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