P. v. Parkinson CA2/2
In 1980, Stephanie Sommers (Sommers) was raped and murdered in her home. With the forensic capability at the time, law enforcement was unable to identify the killer, and the case was unsolved for many years.
In 2004, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was able to produce a partial DNA profile of Sommers’s killer from a swab taken from her body. In 2014, that profile was compared to, and matched, a reference sample of defendant and appellant Harold Parkinson’s DNA.
On January 21, 2016, defendant was charged by indictment with murder (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a)), with the special circumstance allegations that he was engaged in the commission of rape (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)) and that he had previously been convicted of second degree murder (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(2)). It was further alleged that defendant personally used two deadly and dangerous weapons, to wit a knife and a weight, in the commission of the murder (§ 12022, subd. (b)(1)).
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