Supreme Court of California

Under Penal Code section 190.2(a)(2), a prior-murder special-circumstance finding may be based on an offense committed in another jurisdiction if, under the law as it then was, the defendant was too young to be tried as an adult in California.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/26/2001
• Published 07/26/2001

Judges

• KENNARD, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Gail Harper, San Francisco, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, Sanjay T. Kumar, John R. Gorey, Kenneth C. Byrne and Alan D. Tate, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.