Legal Opinion
People v. Smith
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 27, 2005No. G034443PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*919Opinion
IKOLA, J.
Defendants Jeffrey Alan Smith and Mark Perry Taffolla were convicted of first degree murder, first degree burglary, and attempted robbery. The jury found true two allegations of felony-murder special circumstances, and both defendants were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
Smith contends the court committed Aranda/Bruton error (See Bruton v. United States (1968) 391 U.S. 123 [20 L.Ed.2d 476, 88 S.Ct. 1620] (Bruton); People v. Aranda (1965) 63 Cal.2d 518 [47 Cal.Rptr. 353, 407 P.2d 265] (Aranda)), and violated his confrontation rights by admitting testimony of…
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