PEOPLE v. SUPERIOR COURT (SPARKS)

No. S164614.

48 Cal.4th 1 (2010)

224 P.3d 86

THE PEOPLE, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF YUBA COUNTY, Respondent. DUSTIN WILLIAM SPARKS, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

February 8, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, John G. McLean, R. Todd Marshall and George M. Hendrickson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Petitioner.

Mitchell Keiter as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

S. Michelle May, under appointment by the Supreme Court; Scott and Heitman and Justin B. Scott for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

CHIN, J.

Real party in interest, Dustin William Sparks (hereafter defendant or Sparks), was charged with two felony murders. Before his case came to trial, two other persons were tried for the same murders. One was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and the other was acquitted. Concerned about possible inconsistent verdicts, and applying the doctrine of nonmutual collateral estoppel adopted in a...

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