People v. Lang

2 Analyses of this case by attorneys

  1. Capital Defense Weekly, April 7, 2003

    Capital Defense NewsletterApril 7, 2003

    at p. 1228.)"We further underscored our disapproval of Deere I in People v. Lang (1989) 49 Cal.3d 991, 264 Cal. Rptr. 386, 782 P.2d 627: 'Deere was disapproved [in People v. Bloom] to the extent it suggests that a defendant's failure to present mitigating evidence, in and of itself, is sufficient to make a judgment of death constitutionally unreliable.' (Id.

  2. Capital Defense Weekly, August 13 , 2001

    Capital Defense NewsletterAugust 12, 2001

    CALIFORNIA: California has no statutorily required proportionality review and has never imposed such review judicially. See People v. Lang, 49 Cal.3d 991, 1045, 782 P.2d 627, 264 Cal.Rptr. 386 (1989) ("[The d]efendant's motion in the trial court requested intercase review, an examination of whether imposition of the death penalty in this case is disproportionate to the penalties imposed on other persons for similar offenses. Intercase proportionality review is not constitutionally required ... and we have consistently declined to undertake it....