People v. Carpenter

Opinion

CHIN, J.

Two juries have convicted defendant of being the “Trailside Killer” who, in 1980 and 1981, assaulted hikers on remote paths in Santa *1029Cruz and Marin Counties, raped some, shot seven to death, and wounded an eighth. Both juries returned a verdict of death, and the courts imposed judgment accordingly.

The case we now review, tried in San Diego County following a change of venue, is the appeal from the second judgment of death. The jury found defendant guilty of these crimes in Marin County: the first degree murders of Cynthia Moreland, Richard Stowers, Anne Alderson, Diane…