PEOPLE v. AYERS

Docket No. 26345.

51 Cal.App.3d 370 (1975)

124 Cal. Rptr. 283

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DAN MORRIS AYERS et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

September 16, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Richard H. Levin, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, Phillip A. Petty and Robert H. Green, for Defendants and Appellants.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Jack R. Winkler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow and Howard J. Schwab, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

COMPTON, J.

Eloise Popeil and Dan Ayers were charged in an information with conspiracy to commit murder and with soliciting one Donald Reed and Robert Peeler to commit murder. The objective of the conspiracy and the solicitation was the killing of Eloise's estranged husband Samuel Popeil, a wealthy Chicago businessman.

After a trial which lasted over 60 days and produced testimony consuming some 5,000 pages of transcript...

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