People v. Cooper CA4/3
Opinion
Opinion
Goethals, J.
FACTS
This summary of the facts was included in the unpublished opinion of this court which affirmed his conviction: “Shortly after defendant moved in with the victim, Linda Odom, she disappeared; several months later her body was found. An autopsy disclosed skull fractures indicating at least two blunt object blows. A great deal of circumstantial evidence pointed to defendant as Odom’s killer. He gave a variety of explanations for her whereabouts between the day she disappeared and his arrest. . . . [¶] [D]efendant’s girlfriend and the mother of three of his children, was questioned by the police after she agreed to a polygraph examination. (No such examination was conducted because of [her] pregnancy.) During that interview several times she related that defendant told her on many occasions that ‘he did it’ and she thought he told her he had stabbed the victim. When she noticed defendant acting strangely in the victim’s apartment hallway, she questioned him and defendant stated ‘something in reference to stabbing her.’ During the trial, [the girlfriend] testified she had lied to the police.” (People v. Cooper (March 2, 2010, G042559) [nonpub.opn.].)