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IN RE COWAN

No. S158073.

5 Cal.5th 235 (2018)

In re ROBERT WESLEY COWAN on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

June 18, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Goldrosen , under appointment by the Supreme Court; Weinberg & Wilder and Nina Wilder for Petitioner Robert Wesley Cowan.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette and Gerald A. Engler , Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Michael P. Farrell , Assistant Attorney General, Catherine B. Chatman , Louis M. Vasquez , Ryan McCarroll , Eric Christoffersen , Leanne Le Mon and Lewis A. Martinez , Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent State of California.

OPINION

In 1996, a Kern County jury convicted petitioner Robert Wesley Cowan of the first degree murders of Clifford and Alma Merck (Pen. Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 189; all undesignated statutory references are to this code) and found true the special circumstance allegations of multiple murder (§ 190.2,...

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