Opinion ID: 2614001
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Heading: Davenport claim

Text: Finally, defendant claims the prosecutor's argument emphasizing defendant's lack of remorse violated the rule in People v. Davenport, supra, 41 Cal.3d 247, 288-290, that the prosecutor may not argue that the absence of a mitigating factor constitutes the presence of an aggravating factor. Neither the prosecutor's question nor his subsequent argument referred to the absence of remorse as a factor in aggravation; they merely emphasized defendant's lack of remorse  an emphasis whose propriety we repeatedly have endorsed. (See, e.g., People v. Sims, supra, 5 Cal.4th 405, 464-465; People v. Hardy, supra, 2 Cal.4th 86, 210; People v. Ashmus (1991) 54 Cal.3d 932, 992-993 [2 Cal. Rptr.2d 112, 820 P.2d 214]; People v. Keenan, supra, 46 Cal.3d 478, 510; cf. People v. Allison, supra, 48 Cal.3d 879, 902-903.)