PEOPLE v. COOK

No. S042223.

47 Cal.Rptr.3d 22 (2006)

39 Cal.4th 566

139 P.3d 492

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Walter Joseph COOK III, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 14, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Giannini, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Ronald S. Matthias and Aileen Bunney, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


KENNARD, J.

A jury convicted Walter Joseph Cook III of three counts of first degree murder for killing Ernest Sadler, Michael Bettancourt, and Ronald Morris (Pen. Code, § 187),1 and it found true a multiple-murder special circumstance (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(3)). It further found that the murder of Sadler was committed with a deadly weapon (§ 12022, subd. (b)), that defendant personally inflicted great bodily injury on Sadler...

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