People v. Leever

Opinion

SMITH, J.

Charged by information with the June 25, 1982, robbery of a teller at Bank of America’s 420 Post Street office in San Francisco (Pen. Code, § 211)1 defendant Joseph Leever pled not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity, and denied allegations of two prior felony convictions (§§ 667, 667.5, subd. (b)). Leever’s motion to represent himself was granted, and jury trial proceeded in three phases—guilt, sanity and priors. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on the robbery charge, found that Leever was sane at the time of the robbery and found that he had suffered the priors…