Legal Opinion
People v. Brown
California Supreme Court
Decided December 5, 1985No. Crim. 22501PublishedCited by 400 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*521Opinion
GRODIN, J.
Defendant Albert Greenwood Brown, Jr., was convicted on one count of rape (Pen. Code, § 261, former subd. (3))1 with the infliction of great bodily injury (§ 12022.8) (count I) and one count of first degree murder (§§ 187, 189) (count II). The jury made a special finding that the murder was premeditated. A special circumstance that the murder was committed in the course of a rape (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(iii)) was found true. Defendant admitted allegations that he had suffered a prior conviction and prison term for rape. (§§ 667.5, subd. (a), 667.6, subd. (a).)
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