ALCALA v. SUPERIORCOURTOFORANGECOUNTY Part I
Joinder of charges under Penal Code Sec. 790.1, which provides that special circumstances murder charges arising in different counties may be tried together in any of those counties if the crimes were "connected together in their commission," is procedural and may be ordered in cases where the crimes occurred before that section was enacted. Joinder of five murder charges violated due process where two of the murders were factually dissimilar to the other three and involved "insurmountable" DNA evidence not applicable to the other crimes.
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