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PEOPLE v. WILLIS

No. B160530.

9 Cal.Rptr.3d 235 (2004)

115 Cal.App.4th 379

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Ryan WILLIS, Defendant and Appellant.

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

Review Denied April 14, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Verna Wefald, Pasadena, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jaime L. Fuster and Victoria B. Wilson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

BOREN, P.J.

Ryan O'Neal Willis was convicted by a jury of first degree murder, with the special circumstances of torture and lying in wait. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. On appeal, Willis challenges the trial court's admission of dog scent identifications, arguing that "this unreliable yet highly prejudicial evidence" deprived him of a fair trial.

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