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PEOPLE v. VIRGIL

No. S047867.

51 Cal.4th 1210 (2011)

126 Cal. Rptr. 3d 465

253 P.3d 553

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LESTER WAYNE VIRGIL, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

June 30, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Manuel J. Baglanis , under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Meredith L. Fahn for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Pamela C. Hamanaka , Assistant Attorney General, Sharlene A. Honnaka , Erika D. Jackson and Michael C. Keller , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

CORRIGAN, J.—

A jury convicted defendant Lester Wayne Virgil of murdering 22-year-old Soy Sung Lao during a doughnut shop robbery.1 The jury also convicted defendant of two other robberies, both committed with a knife and one accompanied by an assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, and found true a robbery/murder special circumstance.2 Because the penalty...

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