Opinion
S029843
12-02-2019
PEOPLE v. BECK (JAMES DAVID) & CRUZ (GERALD DEAN)
Opinion filed: Judgment affirmed as modified
For the reasons above, we vacate as unauthorized the multiple-murder special-circumstance true findings as to Count V (conspiracy to commit murder) for Beck and Cruz, as well as the death sentences imposed for that count. We remand to the trial court to state on amended abstracts of judgment sentences of imprisonment for 25 years to life on the conspiracy count (Court V) and to strike the multiple-murder special-circumstance true findings for that count. We affirm the judgments, as modified, in all other respects.
Majority Opinion by Liu, J.
—joined by Cantil-Sakauye, C. J., Chin, Corrigan, Cuéllar, Kruger, and Groban, JJ.