Legal Opinion
Rockwell v. Superior Court
California Supreme Court
Decided December 7, 1976No. L.A. 30645PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WRIGHT, C. J.
Steven Douglas Rockwell petitions this court for a writ of prohibition to restrain the Ventura County Superior Court from proceeding with a retrial on “special circumstances” allegations included in an information charging him with murder. We issued an alternative writ in response to his claim that the provisions of Penal Code sections 190 through 190.3, 1 which permit the imposition of the death penalty as punishment for first degree murder when any of the special circumstances charged in an accusatory pleading is found by the trier of fact, violate the Eighth and…
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