P. v. Williams
A jury convicted defendant Richard Glen Williams of first degree murder, found true a lying-in-wait special circumstance, and found he personally used a deadly weapon (a nail gun). (Pen. Code, 187, 190.2, subd. (a)(15), 12022, subd. (b)(1).) The trial court sentenced defendant to prison for 26 years to life without the possibility of parole and defendant timely appealed. Defendant contends his trial attorney was incompetent because he failed to object to certain expert testimony about defendants mental state, the trial court misinstructed the jury on how to evaluate evidence of oral admissions by the defendant, and the lying in wait special circumstance is void for vagueness. Court reject each of these contentions. We shall modify an unauthorized sentence and affirm.
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