P. v. Stearman CA3
Driving to work at around midnight on a desolate Yolo County Line road, his van slowed by a partially deflated tire, Mark Cullen’s path was suddenly blocked by a white pickup that sped ahead and then stopped in front of him. Forced from his vehicle at gunpoint by a passenger from the pickup, Cullen tried to run but was stopped, beaten, knifed, shot, run over by his own van and left for dead, but lived to identify his attackers, defendant Danny Joe Stearman, the uncle of Cullen’s ex-wife with whom he had been embroiled in a heated child custody dispute and David Earl Bristow, Stearman’s friend, paid to assist in this murderous enterprise. Convicted in a joint trial before separate juries of conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, assault, and associated enhancements, they appeal.
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