Dominguez

This case presents issues relating to the validity of a booking search of a murder suspect at the county jail. Convicted of two murders, defendant claims that the search was motivated by improper investigatory police motives and consequently exceeded the permissible scope of such an administrative search. We find the claim untenable and affirm the judgment.

On the evening of September 29, 1984, defendant fatally shot two male acquaintances. Charged with their murders, a jury found the defendant guilty of a murder in the first degree in the first killing and a murder in the second degree in the second. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 189.) The jury further found that defendant personally used a firearm in the commission of the murders. (Pen. Code, § 12022.5, subd. (a).) They also found as a “special circumstance” that he was guilty of more than one count of murder, at least one of which was in the first degree. (Pen. Code, § 190.2, subd. (a)(3).) For the first degree murder with special circumstances, the trial court sentenced defendant to state prison for life without possibility of parole plus two years for the use enhancement. On the second degree murder count, the court imposed…