Legal Opinion
People v. Clark
California Supreme Court
Decided June 27, 2016No. S066940PublishedCited by 338 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CUÉLLAR, J.
An Orange County jury found defendant William Clinton Clark guilty of the first degree murders of Kathy Lee (count 1) and Ardell Williams (count 7). (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 189.) The jury found true the five special circumstance allegations charged, as follows: that defendant committed the murder of Lee while engaged in the commission of a burglary (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(G)) and while in the attempted commission of a robbery (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(A)); 2 that the murder of Williams was the murder of a witness for the purpose of preventing her from testifying in a criminal…
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