Opinion ID: 2640351
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Heading: Defendant's Written Statements to Others While in Custody in the Orange County Jail Awaiting Trial in This Case

Text: In an undated letter to Kelly Dresen, defendant wrote, I'm White to the bone. 1/2 german 1/2 Indian and I'm 100% against black, [¶] My trial date is now July 21st, my crime partner got convicted of 1st degree murd[er] goes back May 25th for sentencing. I feel sorry for him all he did was stand there well I'm shure you don't want to hear all that. (Errors in original.) In a letter to Jeremie Overstreet, defendant drew two lightning bolts and wrote the phrase, stay White, followed by, No better not them hong kong fuee's might not like you! (Errors in original.) In a letter to Tammy Shoopman, defendant said, You herd of Tustin High School? Well a Chino got stabbed to Death on the tennis courts at Tustin High School while roller Blading. I have a 187-211and Hate crime. (Errors in original.) In an undated letter to Samantha Roby, defendant wrote, Not much has changed with me always in troubleBut this time I really did it. I have a 1st degree murder robbery and hate crime and the state of California wants to give me the death penalty. (Misspellings and grammatical errors in original.) Defendant then detailed the murder of Ly, explaining, Well Super Bowl Sunday `96' Dallas over Pittsburg, A friend and I were walking home from workK-martI was a stocker. And we were walking through a high school and my friend saw this dud and asked if I could kick his ass, I was stoned, and said of course, walked in and blam I knocked him out with one punchyou know meAnd we waited for him to get up. [¶] When he did he layed there, and was looking at me. I was already on the run from Mt. Vernon shooting some people with a shot gun. So I thought he was trying to get a discription of me, so I stomped on his head, then stabbed him over 51 times, and slashing his neck. Then we left the guy was Asian so now I'm charged with a 1st degree murder robbery, and a hate crimeso the want the Death Penalty. Yah I fucked up big this time. (Errors in original.) In an undated letter to Vanessa Smrekar, defendant admitted, I'm in on a 1st degree murder, hate crime and robbery. But, I'm no thief and I'm only ALiL racist. (Original formatting.)