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Death penalty, prosecutorial misconduct opinions filing Monday

August 15, 2014

On Monday morning, the Supreme Court will file opinions in two criminal law cases, both of which were argued on the late-May calendar.

In People v. Shazier, the court will decide whether the Court of Appeal correctly reversed an order of commitment for prejudicial prosecutorial misconduct at a third commitment trial under the Sexually Violent Predator Act (Welf. & Inst. Code, § 6600 et seq.).

People v. Merriman is an automatic appeal from a May 2001 judgment of death.

The opinions can be viewed Monday starting at 10:00 a.m.

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