PEOPLE v. PADILLA

Docket No. S014496.

11 Cal.4th 891 (1995)

906 P.2d 388

47 Cal. Rptr.2d 426

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ALFREDO ALVARADO PADILLA, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 4, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Bradley N. Webb, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, W. Scott Thorpe and Janet G. Bangle, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

ARABIAN, J.

Not long after midnight on January 5, 1988, the body of Esther "Goosey" Alvarado, a homeless prostitute and heroin addict, was found lying facedown on the edge of a country road near Grayson, a small town in Stanislaus County about 15 miles west of Modesto, California. She had shotgun and small-caliber bullet wounds in her chest and abdomen. Beside her body, scrawled...

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