Certified for Partial Publication.
SIMS, Acting P.J.
Defendant Michael Simon's 17-year-old wife was brutally slain only four months after their marriage. She was shot twice in the chest by a shotgun at close range and left in the bushes. Her car had been burned. A jury found defendant guilty of first degree murder with special circumstances of lying in wait (Pen.Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 190.2, subd. (a)(15)),
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