# People v. Motton

> California Supreme Court · August 19, 1985 · 39 Cal. 3d 596

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9553078

## Case

- **Full name:** The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. EDWARD JAMES MOTTON, Defendant and Appellant
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** August 19, 1985
- **Citations:** 39 Cal. 3d 596; 217 Cal. Rptr. 416; 704 P.2d 176; 1985 Cal. LEXIS 323
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Lucas
- **Judges:** Broussard, Lucas
- **Cited by:** 48 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding afri-can-american women to be a "cognizable group”
- holding black women to be “cognizable group”

## Opinion text

LUCAS, J.
I concur in the judgment, but only under the compulsion of People v. Wheeler (1978) 22 Cal.3d 258 [ 148 Cal.Rptr. 890 , 583 P.2d 748 ]. For the reasons expressed by Justice Richardson in his dissent in that case ( 22 Cal.3d at p. 288 ), Wheeler was incorrectly decided and should be reexamined.
Respondent’s petition for a rehearing was denied October 3, 1985, and the opinion was modified to read as printed above. Lucas, J., was of the opinion that the petition should be granted.

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