P. v. Patterson
Defendant carried his 10-year-old daughter onto Interstate 80 and ran into the path of a semi truck. Defendant was killed and he was seriously injured. A jury convicted him of first degree murder but deadlocked on the issue of sanity. Following a declaration of mistrial, a second jury found him sane. At the sanity trial, the jury was informed that defendant had been found guilty of premeditated murder and that fact was argued by the prosecutor as bearing on defendant’s sanity. This court affirmed the judgment. The California Supreme Court denied review.
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