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PEOPLE v. CASTILLO

Docket No. Crim. 12009.

70 Cal.2d 264 (1969)

449 P.2d 449

74 Cal. Rptr. 385

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOSEPH VASQUEZ CASTILLO, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 31, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph V. Mazziotta, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Thomas C. Lynch, Attorney General, William E. James, Assistant Attorney General, Stanton Price and Philip C. Griffin, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

TOBRINER, J.

An information charged defendant with the murder of Guadalupe R. Rios. Defendant entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity and admitted a charged prior conviction for assault with a deadly weapon. A jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree. Defendant withdrew his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity and waived a jury trial on the issue of penalty. The trial court fixed the punishment at life imprisonment and entered...

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