Does the death penalty law violate equal protection by denying procedural rights to non-capital defendants?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Johnson, 190 Cal.Rptr.3d 536, 353 P.3d 266, 61 Cal.4th 734 (Cal. 2015):
Because we have concluded that capital defendants and noncapital defendants are not similarly situated, the death penalty law does not violate equal protection by denying capital defendants various procedural rights given to noncapital defendants. (People v. Riggs, supra, 44 Cal.4th at p. 330, 79 Cal.Rptr.3d 648, 187 P.3d 363.)
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