California Court of Appeal

Conviction of second degree murder is reversed, where there is a reasonable probability that the second jury's false impression that a failure to convict defendant of murder would leave him unpunished for his actions, and was the determining factor why the second trial resulted in a conviction for murder.

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• Decided 09/16/2014
• Published 09/16/2014

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• California Court of Appeal

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