PEOPLE v. CARPENTER

Docket No. S004654.

15 Cal.4th 312 (1997)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DAVID JOSEPH CARPENTER, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

April 28, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Fern M. Laethem, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Margot Garey, Robert D. Bacon and Kent Barkhurst, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Carol Wendelin Pollack, Assistant Attorney General, John R. Gorey, Susan Lee Frierson, Robert S. Henry and Pamela C. Hamanaka, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

CHIN, J.

Evidence at the guilt and penalty trials established that defendant is the "Trailside Killer" who terrorized Californians in 1980 and 1981. Over several months, he assaulted hikers on remote paths in Santa Cruz and Marin Counties, shooting to death seven at close range with a .38-caliber Rossi revolver and raping some of them. An eighth shooting victim survived to testify against him.

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