California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Thompson, 165 Cal.Rptr. 289, 27 Cal.3d 303, 611 P.2d 883 (Cal. 1980):
This court's recent decision in People v. Green (1980) 27 Cal.3d 1, 164 Cal.Rptr. 1, 609 P.2d 468 raises the additional question of whether the evidence in the present case was sufficient to support the jury's findings that the robbery and burglary special circumstances were true. In Green, as here, the defendant was convicted of first degree murder with a special circumstances finding that the murder was (inter [27 Cal.3d 322] alia) "committed during the commission or attempted commission" of a robbery. (Former 190.2,
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