# People v. Lang

> California Supreme Court · December 7, 1989 · 49 Cal. 3d 991

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9538006

## Case

- **Full name:** The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. KENNETH BURTON LANG, JR., Defendant and Appellant
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** December 7, 1989
- **Citations:** 49 Cal. 3d 991; 264 Cal. Rptr. 386; 782 P.2d 627; 1989 Cal. LEXIS 2094
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Broussard
- **Judges:** Kaufman, Mosk, Broussard
- **Cited by:** 351 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Abrogated on other grounds by People v. Diaz, 60 Cal. 4th 1176 (2015).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 2
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9538006

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that prosecutor’s “urging use of evidence for a purpose other than the limited purpose for which it was admitted is improper argument”
- finding no ineffective assistance where trial counsel agrees to defendant’s request not to call his grandmother in mitigation hearing, reasoning that client has the final say

## Opinion text

BROUSSARD, J., Concurring and Dissenting.
I agree generally with the views expressed by Justice Mosk in his concurring and dissenting opinion.
Appellant’s petition for a rehearing was denied February 1, 1990. Mosk, J., and Broussard, J., were of the opinion that the petition should be granted.

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Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9538006. Public record. Not legal advice.