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PEOPLE v. CAVITT

No. S105058.

14 Cal.Rptr.3d 281 (2004)

91 P.3d 222

33 Cal.4th 187

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. James Freddie CAVITT, Defendant and Appellant. The People, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Robert Nathaniel Williams, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 21, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neil Rosenbaum, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant James Freddie Cavitt.

Paul V. Carroll, Menlo Park, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant Robert Nathaniel Williams.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Ronald A. Bass and Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorneys General, Christina V. Kuo, Catherine A. Rivlin and Jeffrey M. Bryant, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

BAXTER, J.

Defendants James Cavitt and Robert Williams were convicted in separate trials of the felony murder of 58-year-old Betty McKnight, the stepmother of Cavitt's girlfriend, Mianta McKnight. Defendants admitted plotting with Mianta to enter the McKnight home, to catch Betty unawares and tie her up, and to steal Betty's jewelry and other property. On the evening of December 1, 1995, with Mianta's assistance, the...

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