In Re Price

Opinion

KENNARD, Acting C. J.

A jury convicted petitioner Curtis F. Price of the first degree murders (Pen. Code, § 187) 1 of Elizabeth Ann Hickey and Richard Barnes. As to the murder of Hickey, the jury made special circumstance findings of multiple murder (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(3)) and burglary murder (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(G)), and it fixed the penalty at death. The trial court denied the automatic motion to modify penalty (§ 190.4, subd. (e)) and sentenced petitioner to death. On petitioner’s automatic appeal, this court unanimously affirmed the judgment. (People v. Price (1991) Cal.4th 324…