Opinion ID: 2618245
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Heading Rank: 70

Heading: Failure to Delete Assertedly Inapplicable Factors

Text: (81) Defendants argue the trial court erred by failing to delete from the penalty phase instructions assertedly inapplicable factors. We reject the claim: it is well settled that the trial court has no duty to delete assertedly inapplicable mitigating factors. ( People v. Lewis (1990) 50 Cal.3d 262, 280 [266 Cal. Rptr. 834, 786 P.2d 892].) Hardy suggests the prosecutor committed Davenport error ( People v. Davenport (1985) 41 Cal.3d 247, 288-290 [221 Cal. Rptr. 794, 710 P.2d 861]), because he clearly suggest[ed] to the jury that they should find this crime to be an aggravated one because none of these four types of inapplicable mitigation existed here. The record, however, does not disclose that the prosecutor engaged in such argument.