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PEOPLE v. PEARSON

No. S120750.

53 Cal.4th 306 (2012)

135 Cal. Rptr. 3d 262

53 Cal. 4th 306

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. KEVIN DARNELL PEARSON, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

January 9, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Conrad Petermann , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Pamela C. Hamanaka , Assistant Attorney General, Sharlene A. Honnaka and Yun K. Lee , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

WERDEGAR, J.—

Defendant Kevin Darnell Pearson was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 first degree murder of Penny Sigler, also known as Penny Keptra. The jury found the murder was committed during the course of robbery, kidnapping, rape, and sexual penetration by foreign object, and that it involved the infliction of torture. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 189, 190.2, subd. (a)(17), (18).)1

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