WELLS

v.

CALIFORNIA

Citator

Cited By

• State of Fla. ex rel. Jeffrey Michael Boyd v. Green, 355 So. 2d 789 (Fla. 1978)
  …d: “It is to be remembered that in the eyes of the law there is still only one trial . but the trial is broken up into two sections or stages if insanity is pleaded as a defense.” People v. Wells, 33 Cal.2d 330, 349, 202 P. 2d 53, 65, cert. denied, 338 U.S. 836, 70 S.Ct. 43, 94 L.Ed. 510 (1949).…
• Brown v. Allen, 344 U.S. 443 (U.S. 1953)
  …ourt, and this judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of California in an opinion which gave extended consideration to the appellant’s contentions. People v. Wells, 33 Cal. 2d 330, 202 P. 2d 53. This Court denied certiorari, Wells v. California, 338 U. S. 836. Wells, without seeking habeas corpus in state court, then petitioned a federal district judge in California for habeas corpus. That judge took the unusual step of passing on the merits of the case in spite of the fact that state remedies had not be…
• United States v. Wilfredo Alvarez, 519 F.2d 1036 (3d Cir. 1975)
  …y or retry the insanity issue alone.27 The effect of the California mandatory bifurcation is to deprive the defendant of the benefit of evidence bearing upon wilfulness or premeditation. In People v. Wells, 33 Cal.2d 330, 202 P. 2d 53, cert. denied, 338 U.S. 836, 70 S.Ct. 43, 94 L.Ed. 510 (1949), despite the apparently mandatory language of the California statute, that state’s Supreme Court held it was error to refuse to admit evidence at the guilt determining stage, that a psychological abnormality could h…