Opinion ID: 2507854
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Heading: Multiple Felony-Murder Special Circumstances

Text: Defendant also asserts that section 190.2, subdivision (a)(17) does not allow the prosecutor to charge, or the jury to find true, multiple felony-murder special circumstances as to each murder. We have repeatedly rejected this contention (e.g., People v. Holt (1997) 15 Cal.4th 619, 682, 63 Cal.Rptr.2d 782, 937 P.2d 213), and do so again here. Only a strained construction of the language of this section would support a conclusion that section 190.2(a)(17) permits only one special circumstance finding regardless of the number of felonies in which a defendant was engaged at the time of a murder. ( People v. Holt, supra, 15 Cal.4th at p. 682, 63 Cal.Rptr.2d 782, 937 P.2d 213.)