P. v. Howard CA2/3
Defendant James Howard appeals from the judgment after a jury trial in which he was convicted of the premeditated murder of his live-in girlfriend, Sharilit Matthews. The victim’s body was discovered eight days after the murder, lying on the bed in her apartment with her throat slit. During the time between the murder and the discovery of the body, defendant visited with friends, contacted other women to arrange sexual liaisons, smoked a lot of marijuana, attended at least one party, and visited the apartment on several occasions (apparently undeterred by Matthews’s decomposing body) to gather Matthews’s possessions in order to pawn them.
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