PEOPLE v. LETNER AND TOBIN

No. S015384.

50 Cal.4th 99 (2010)

112 Cal. Rptr. 3d 746

235 P.3d 62

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. RICHARD LACY LETNER and CHRISTOPHER ALLAN TOBIN, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

July 29, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Thomas Bowden and R. Clayton Seaman, Jr., under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant Richard Lacy Letner.

Fern M. Laethem, Lynn S. Coffin and Michael J. Hersek, State Public Defenders, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Alison Pease and Ronald F. Turner, Deputy State Public Defenders, for Defendant and Appellant Christopher Allan Tobin.

Daniel E. Lungren, Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, George Williamson and Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Ward A. Campbell, Matthew L. Cate, Eric L. Christoffersen, John G. McLean and Mark A. Johnson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GEORGE, C. J.

Defendants Richard Lacy Letner and Christopher Allan Tobin were convicted of first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187),1 burglary (§ 459), robbery (§§ 211, 212.5), attempted rape (§§ 664, 261, subd. (a)(2)), and theft of an automobile (Veh. Code, § 10851, subd. (a)), arising from the murder of Ivon Pontbriant in her home in Visalia, California, on March...

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