MOSK, J., Dissenting. In my view a fair reading of the record demonstrates that defendant was denied constitutionally adequate assistance of counsel at the penalty phase of his trial, and hence that the judgment of death imposed on him cannot stand. I It is now settled that the constitutional right of a criminal defendant to the “assistance of co…
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