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Filed 5/7/13 P. v Colver CA3

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT

(El Dorado) ----

THE PEOPLE, C068989

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. No. P09CRF0273)

v.

STEVEN PAUL COLVER,

Defendant and Appellant.

Police found Joanne Witt (Joanne) dead in her El Dorado Hills home with 20 knife wounds to her body. Joanne‟s 14-year-old daughter, Tylar Witt (Tylar), and Tylar‟s 19- year-old boyfriend, defendant Steven Paul Colver, were charged with Joanne‟s murder. Tylar pled guilty to second degree murder in exchange for her subsequent testimony at defendant‟s trial for first degree murder (premeditation and lying in wait) with two special circumstances (lying in wait and killing a witness to a crime, i.e, sex with a…