Court Opinion

ID: 9792662
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 02:33:34.061038+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:44.488336
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MOSK, J.
I dissent.
In People v. Sheldon (1989) 48 Cal.3d 935 [258 Cal.Rptr. 242, 771 P.2d 1330] (hereafter Sheldon I), this court vacated the original judgment imposing a sentence of death for redetermination of the automatic verdict-modification application which the trial court had erroneously denied. I would have reversed the judgment in that regard for various instances of prejudicial misconduct by the prosecutor and prejudicial error by the trial court. (Id. at pp. 963-969 (conc. & dis. opn. of Mosk, J.).) On remand, after again denying the automatic verdict-modification application, the trial court reinstated the judgment. The majority now conclude that affirmance is in order. I cannot agree. I adhere to the views I expressed in Sheldon I: reversal of the judgment is required insofar as it imposes the sentence of death.