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PEOPLE v. BECK AND CRUZ

No. S029843.

8 Cal.5th 548 (2019)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JAMES DAVID BECK and GERALD DEAN CRUZ, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California.

December 2, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Parnes , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant James David Beck.

William T. Lowe ; and Michael J. Hersek , State Public Defender, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant Gerald Dean Cruz.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette and Gerald A. Engler , Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Jeffrey M. Laurence , Assistant Attorney General, Glenn R. Pruden and David M. Baskind , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

Defendants James David Beck and Gerald Dean Cruz were convicted of the first degree murders of Dennis Ian Colwell, Emmie Darlene Paris, Franklin Delano Raper, and Richard Talmadge Ritchey, and of conspiracy to commit murder. (Pen. Code, §§ 182, subd. (a)(1), 187, subd. (a), former § 189 (all further...

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