Legal Opinion
In Re Lucas
California Supreme Court
Decided July 26, 2004No. S050142PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
GEORGE, C. J.
In People v. Lucas (1995) 12 Cal.4th 415 [48 Cal.Rptr.2d 525, 907 P.2d 373], we affirmed the judgment against petitioner Larry Douglas Lucas, who is confined in state prison under sentence of death for the murders of an elderly couple who resided next door to him. The prosecution’s evidence was that petitioner entered the couple’s home with the intent to commit a burglary and that he killed the victims when they discovered him in the course of the burglary. Petitioner’s primary defense was that he killed the victims while in a drug-induced state of unconsciousness.
Petitione…
2Cases cited27 opinions
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