PEOPLE v. PROTOPAPPAS

Docket No. G002111.

201 Cal.App.3d 152 (1988)

246 Cal. Rptr. 915

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. TONY PROTOPAPPAS, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three.

May 13, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Handy Horiye, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Michael D. Wellington and Janelle B. Davis, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


[Opinion certified for partial publication.1]

OPINION

WALLIN, J.

A jury found Tony Protopappas, a licensed dentist and oral surgeon, guilty of the second degree murder of three of his patients. He appeals.2

Protopappas opened his Costa Mesa dental clinic in 1974. By September of 1982, he employed a staff of five dentists, many dental assistants, and two office...

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