Legal Opinion
People v. Wrest
California Supreme Court
Decided November 23, 1992No. S005780PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
LUCAS, C. J.
This is an automatic appeal from a judgment of death. Finding no reversible error, we affirm the judgment in its entirety.
Facts
Appellant’s Guilty Plea and Its Factual Basis
In an amended information, appellant was charged in the following counts: count I, the murder of Virginia Aceves (Pen. Code, § 187; all undesignated statutory references are to this code), personal use of a deadly or dangerous weapon (§ 12022, subd. (b)), and allegations of three special circumstances—multiple murder (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(3)), robbery-murder (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(i)), and rape-murder (§…
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