Does anyone have a voir dire on a sexual assault of a child case with auto life. Defense attorney wants to go to jury for punishment even though it is an auto life case.
Pretty sure that's not how that works, is it? Isn't the sentence a ministerial act after conviction in those cases? Like in a non-death capital murder?
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It seems to me that the jury would have to find the enhancement true and then be instructed if true you sentence the defendant to life--unless I am missing something.
