PEOPLE v. COWAN

No. S055415.

50 Cal.4th 401 (2010)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ROBERT WESLEY COWAN, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 5, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Goldrosen, under appointment by the Supreme Court; Weinberg & Wilder and Nina Wilder for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Julie A. Hokans, Eric L. Christoffersen, John A. Thawley and Lewis A. Martinez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

MORENO, J.

A Kern County jury found defendant Robert Wesley Cowan guilty of the first degree murders of Clifford and Alma Merck (Pen. Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 189)1 and found true the special circumstance allegations of multiple murder (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(3)) and murder during the commission of robbery and burglary (§ 190.2, subd...

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