People v. Solorzano
California Court of Appeal
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1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
GOMES, J.
Not once, but twice, José Luis Solórzano stood trial on charges arising out of the robberies of four stores. While mental competence proceedings were pending before his first trial, the court (Hon. Roger D. Randall) refused to hear his Marsden 1 motion on the rationale that “different rules” applied to those proceedings and he could “raise that issue later if found competent.” A jury found him guilty as charged of four counts of second degree robbery and found true all but one of the special allegations in the information (personal knife uses in three of the four counts and…
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