Legal Opinion
People v. Lucero
California Supreme Court
Decided August 30, 2000No. S012568PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KENNARD, J.
This is the second time this case is before us. In 1981, defendant Philip Louis Lucero was sentenced to death after a jury found him guilty of two counts of murder (Pen. Code, § 187)1 and one count of arson (§451, subd. (c)), and found true an alleged multiple-murder special circumstance. In 1988, we affirmed the judgment of guilt, including the special circumstance finding, but we reversed the judgment of death, holding that the trial court had improperly excluded certain mitigating evidence at the penalty phase of trial. (People v. Lucero (1988) 44 Cal.3d 1006 [245…
2Cases cited71 opinions
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