Walker

People v. Walker

Bad Law
1998 Cal. App. LEXIS 530·64 Cal. App. 4th 1062·75 Cal. Rptr. 2d 871·98 Daily Journal DAR 6249·98 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 4581
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaMay 22, 1998Docket Nos. E018940, E019158, E019366California3,012 words

Opinion

Opinion

Ramirez, J.

A jury convicted Clarence D. Clemons, Jennifer Erwin and Charles Edward Walker of perjury (Pen. Code, § 118) and the former two of being accessories after the fact to homicide (Pen. Code, § 32). In bifurcated proceedings, the trial court found that Clemons had suffered a prior conviction, for which he served a prison sentence (Pen. Code, § 667.5, subd. (b)) and Walker had suffered a strike prior (Pen. Code, § 667, subds. (c), (e)). Clemons and Walker were sentenced to prison for four years and six years respectively and Erwin received probation. All three appeal, making various claims, all of which we reject. We therefore affirm the judgments of all three, except that we direct the trial court to correct an error in Clemons’s abstract of judgment.

Facts

On March 13, 1993, Stacy Murrell attended a party. She left the party during the early morning hours of March 14 with Erwin, Clemons and Walter Evans, Jr., in Clemons’s Cadillac. They drove to a convenience store parking lot where a Jeep containing the victims and their companion was parked. After predicting that he could knock out one of the occupants of the Jeep with one punch, Clemons approached the vehicle and began…

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