Legal Opinion
People v. Burgener
California Supreme Court
Decided March 27, 1986No. Crim. No. 22219PublishedCited by 281 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
GRODIN, J.
Defendant Michael Ray Burgener was convicted on one count of murder (Pen. Code, § 187)1 with use of a firearm (§ 12022.5), one count of robbery (§ 211) with use of a firearm (§ 12022.5) and infliction of great bodily injury (§ 12022.7), and one count of being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm (§ 12021).
The jury fixed the degree of murder at first degree, found that it was committed during a robbery, and found that it was committed with express malice aforethought and with deliberation and premeditation. Under the 1978 death penalty law, a special circumstance that the…
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