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PEOPLE v. WATKINS

No. S026634.

55 Cal.4th 999 (2012)

290 P.3d 364

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. PAUL SODOA WATKINS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

December 17, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynne S. Coffin and Michael J. Hersek , State Public Defenders, under appointments by the Supreme Court, and Nina Rivkind , Deputy State Public Defender, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer , Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Robert R. Anderson and Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Pamela C. Hamanaka , Assistant Attorney General, John R. Gorey , Louis W. Karlin , Keith H. Borjon and Stephanie A. Miyoshi , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

CANTIL-SAKAUYE, C. J. —

In July 1990, defendant Paul Sodoa Watkins shot and killed Raymond Shield. A jury convicted defendant of the first degree murder of Shield (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a)), and found true the special circumstance allegation that defendant did so while in the commission of an attempted robbery. (Pen. Code, § 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(A).)1 The jury further found defendant guilty...

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