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People v. Sears

Citations

  • 62 Cal. 2d 737
  • 44 Cal. Rptr. 330
  • 401 P.2d 938
  • 1965 Cal. LEXIS 291

How courts have described this case

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  • giving as a secondary reason for affir-mance of burglary conviction that “since defendant had moved out of the family home three weeks prior to the crime, he could claim no right to enter the residence of another without permission”
  • describing husband entering estranged wife’s residence, injuring wife, and killing wife’s daughter
  • describing husband entering estranged wife’s residence, injuring wife, and killing wife’s daughter
  • no consent defense indicated in statutory wording; entry with requisite intent constitutes burglary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Tobriner, Dooling-, Schauer

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