People v. Nesler

Supreme Court of California · Decided 1997-08-21

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Opinion GEORGE, C. J. In a Tuolumne County courtroom, during a break in Daniel Driver’s preliminary hearing on charges of sodomizing her seven-year-old son, defendant Ellena Starr Nesler shot and killed Driver. A jury found defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter with the use of a firearm, thereafter deciding that she was sane at the time of the commission of the offense. The Court of Appeal affirmed defenda…

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