P. v. Goree CA2/3
Christopher Goree’s sole contention on appeal concerns his life without the possibility of parole (LWOP) sentence, imposed for a murder committed when he was a juvenile. Because of the discrete nature of the issue and because we ultimately conclude that this appeal is moot, a detailed summary of Goree’s crime is unnecessary.
In short, Goree brutally raped and murdered Josephine Tan in 1993, when he was 17 years old. He escaped arrest until 2002, when DNA evidence linked him to the murder. A jury found him guilty of first degree murder and found true the special circumstance allegation that Goree committed the murder while engaged in the commission of rape. (Pen. Code, § 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(c).) On June 15, 2012, the trial court sentenced Goree to LWOP, which the trial court believed was the presumptive penalty under section 190.5. Goree appealed, and this court remanded the matter to the trial court to reconsider his sentence in light of then recent authority concerning
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