PEOPLE v. ERVINE

No. S054372.

47 Cal.4th 745 (2009)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. DENNIS NEWTON ERVINE, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 7, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defender, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Douglas Ward, Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Charles A. French, Patrick J. Whalen and Laura Wetzel Simpton, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

BAXTER, J.

After his motion for change of venue was granted, defendant Dennis Newton Ervine was convicted by a Sacramento County jury of the first degree murder of Lassen County Deputy Sheriff Larry Griffith and the attempted willful, deliberate and premeditated murders of Commander William Freitas, Deputy Wayne Aldridge, and Deputy Henry Mahan, all by use of a firearm. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 664, subds. (a...

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