PEOPLE v. NESLER

Docket No. S056082.

16 Cal.4th 561 (1997)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ELLENA STARR NESLER, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 21, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Paul Couenhoven, 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, Stan Cross and Janet E. Neeley, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GEORGE, C.J.

In a Tuolumne County courtroom, during a break in Daniel Driver's preliminary hearing on charges of sodomizing her seven-year-old son, defendant Ellena Starr Nesler shot and killed Driver. A jury found defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter with the use of a firearm, thereafter deciding that she was sane at the time of the commission of the offense. The Court of Appeal affirmed defendant's conviction. We granted...

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