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In Re Hardy

California Supreme Court

Decided July 26, 2007No. S022153, S093694PublishedCited by 70 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion

WERDEGAR, J.—

I. Introduction

Petitioner James Edward Hardy was convicted in 1983, along with codefendant Mark Anthony Reilly, of the first degree murders of Nancy Morgan and her young son, Mitchell Morgan, and of conspiracy to commit murder to collect life insurance proceeds. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 182.) The jury also sustained six special circumstance allegations against both Hardy and Reilly, finding as to each murder that it was committed for financial gain, that the defendants committed a multiple murder and that they killed while lying in wait. (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(1), (3), (15).) The…

2Cases cited39 opinions

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  5. People v. LedesmaCalifornia Supreme Court · 1987

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