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People v. Romo

California Court of Appeal

Decided April 9, 1975No. Crim. 7582PublishedCited by 55 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

EVANS, J.

A jury found defendant DeWitt guilty of murder of the first degree, and defendant Romo guilty of murder of the second degree; and they have appealed from the judgments.

This case discloses a sordid, gruesome, and tangled skein of facts from which a consistent factual thread stands out with sufficient clarity to make it possible to condense a factual summary.

On December 30, 1973, Romo, Rick Fournier (the murder victim), Kim Treharne (half brother of Romo), Bonnie Tovar (common law wife of DeWitt), Ace Waldner and Linda Drouin (Romo’s girl friend) spent approximately 10 hours at…

2Cases cited32 opinions

  1. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. California v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. People v. ArandaCalifornia Supreme Court · 1965
  4. People v. IbarraCalifornia Supreme Court · 1963
  5. People v. AndersonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1968

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3Cited by55 opinions

  1. People v. HillCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1998
  2. People v. AndersonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1987
  3. People v. PhillipsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1985
  4. People v. BoltonCalifornia Supreme Court · 1979
  5. State v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1980

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