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PEOPLE v. CARPENTER

No. S006547.

90 Cal.Rptr.2d 607 (1999)

21 Cal.4th 1016

988 P.2d 531

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. David Joseph CARPENTER, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

Rehearing Denied January 19, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fern M. Laethem, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Kent Barkhurst and Charles J. Press, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, William M. Wood, Laura Whitcomb Halgren and Steven T. Oetting, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

CHIN, J.

Two juries have convicted defendant of being the "Trailside Killer" who, in 1980 and 1981, assaulted hikers on remote paths in Santa Cruz and Marin Counties, raped some, shot seven to death, and wounded an eighth. Both juries returned a verdict of death, and the courts imposed judgment accordingly.

The case we now review, tried in San Diego County following a change of venue, is the appeal from the second judgment of death. The jury found defendant...

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