Legal Opinion
People v. Osband
California Supreme Court
Decided July 29, 1996No. S005233PublishedCited by 536 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
THE COURT.*
Defendant Lance Ian Osband has been sentenced to death under the 1978 death penalty statute for murder.
In an information, defendant was charged with the murder on October 5, 1985, of Lois Minnie Skuse. (Pen. Code, § 187; all unlabeled statutory references are to this code.) It was also alleged that he used a knife in the killing. (Former § 12022, subd. (b).) Three special circumstances were alleged: that the murder was in the first degree and he committed it during a burglary (former § 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(vii)), during a robbery (former § 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(i)), and after…
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