California Court of Appeal

Where language of a felony information charges a defendant with only first degree murder, he or she may plead guilty to first degree murder, but may not plead guilty to murder in an unspecified degree or utilize the procedures of Penal Code section 1192 to determine the degree of the offense.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/18/2002
• Published 10/18/2002

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Kenneth I. Clayman, Public Defender, Neil B. Quinn, Chief Deputy Public Defender, Jan Helfrich, Senior Deputy Public Defender, for Petitioner., Michael D. Bradbury, District Attorney, Lela Henke-Dobroth, Chief Deputy District Attorney, Dee Corona, Michael D. Schwartz, Senior Deputy District Attorneys, for Real Party in Interest.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance for Respondent.