Opinion ID: 2600470
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Heading: Triple Use of Facts

Text: Defendant argues the death penalty statute in effect at the time of defendant's trial permitted capricious infliction of punishment under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the federal Constitution because it permitted the jury to consider the same facts in determining defendant's guilt of the charged offenses, the truth of the special circumstance allegations, and the proper penalty. We repeatedly have upheld such triple use of the same facts. ( People v. Smith (2003) 30 Cal.4th 581, 641, 134 Cal.Rptr.2d 1, 68 P.3d 302; People v. Marshall (1990) 50 Cal.3d 907, 269 Cal.Rptr. 269, 790 P.2d 676.)