People v. Dew CA4/1

background from our prior opinion. The Killing “In 1982, Claude County lived in an apartment in Ocean Beach. On the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1982, County’s friend George went looking for County because he had not shown up for his usual morning coffee for several days and did not show up for a planned Thanksgiving dinner. George found County dead on the floor of County’s apartment, with his hands tied behind his back, his feet bound, and a towel over his head. County’s television, stereo, and two long-necked wine bottles were missing. George called the police. County’s apartment had been ransacked, and there was blood on the walls, furniture, a bowling trophy, a bowling pin, and on a knife with a two-inch blade. “An autopsy revealed County had bruised lips, broken teeth, breaks and discoloration on his tongue, a broken nose, and ‘line-like’ injuries above and behind his right ear and to the back of his head. Although County did not have a ‘skull fracture, as such,’ there was an area of abrasion, bruising, and bleeding at the base of his brain. There was vomit in County’s nose, mouth, trachea, lungs, and stomach. A forensic pathologist determined County’s cause of…