PEOPLE v. LEONARD

No. S054291.

58 Cal.Rptr.3d 368 (2007)

40 Cal.4th 1370

157 P.3d 973

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Eric Royce LEONARD, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

May 17, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wesley A. Van Winkle, Berkeley, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Ward A. Campbell and Patrick J. Whalen, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Erickson Beasley Hewitt & Wilson and Todd Boley, Oakland, for California Department of Developmental Services as Amicus Curiae, upon the request of the Supreme Court.


KENNARD, J.

A jury convicted defendant Eric Royce Leonard of six counts of murder (Pen. Code, § 187),1 and it found true two special-circumstance allegations of robbery murder (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)) as well as one special-circumstance allegation of multiple murder (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(3)). The jury also convicted defendant of two counts of robbery (§ 211), and it found...

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