Legal Opinion
People v. Gottman
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 10, 1976No. Crim. 15137PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ELKINGTON, J.
We granted a rehearing following our initial opinion on this appeal, in order to give further consideration to the Attorney General’s insistence that the opinion constituted “a triumph of illogic over justice.” The issue raised in the petition concerns the role of a jury in the administration of criminal justice.
Defendant Gottman was charged with (1) “rape by threat of great bodily harm,” a violation of Penal Code section 261, subdivision 3, and (2) a violation of Penal Code section 288a which proscribed the act of copulating the sexual organ of one person with the mouth…
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