Legal Opinion
People v. Webster
California Supreme Court
Decided August 30, 1991No. Docket Nos. S004528, S007757. Crim. No. 23128PublishedCited by 204 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BAXTER, J.
Defendant Larry Junior Webster and three other men were jointly tried on charges arising from the death of William Burke. A jury convicted defendant of first degree murder with personal use of a deadly and dangerous weapon (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 189, 12022, subd. (b)),1 robbery (§211), conspiracy to commit first degree murder and robbery (§ 182, former subd. 1 [now subd. (a)(1)]), and grand theft of an automobile (former § 487, subd. 3 [see now § 487h]). Under the 1978 death penalty law, the jury found as special circumstances of the murder that defendant intentionally committed…
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