Opinion ID: 2625875
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 24

Heading: Delay in Hearing Defendant's Appeal and His Execution After Such Delay

Text: Defendant contends that the delay in appointing appellate counsel and hearing this automatic appeal (from the judgment in September 1990 to the present) deprived him of due process, and that his execution after such delay would serve no legitimate penological purpose and would therefore violate the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We have rejected substantially identical contentions in several recent cases ( People v. Ochoa (2001) 26 Cal.4th 398, 462-464, 110 Cal.Rptr.2d 324, 28 P.3d 78; People v. Anderson, supra, 25 Cal.4th at pp. 605-606, 106 Cal.Rptr.2d 575, 22 P.3d 347; People v. Frye, supra, 18 Cal.4th at pp. 1030-1031, 77 Cal.Rptr.2d 25, 959 P.2d 183) and find no cause to reconsider those decisions here.