Opinion ID: 2646881
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: Homicide Investigator Phil Ricciardi

Text: Riverside County Sheriff’s Homicide Investigator Phil Ricciardi traveled to the Riverside Community Hospital the day after the murders to interview Conya L. Investigator Ricciardi first presented Conya L. with a picture of Walker, whom Conya L. had previously identified to the police by way of his moniker. Conya L. began crying and said “he was the one that did this to her.” Investigator Ricciardi then read Conya L. a photographic lineup admonition and presented her with a lineup containing a picture of defendant. Conya L. pointed to defendant’s picture and said “he was the one that was cutting on her throat.” At trial, Conya L. provided an in-court identification of defendant, stating: “I’m a hundred percent positive . . . . There is no doubt in my mind . . . . It was Rob. We were in the bathroom with the light on.” In August 1995, Conya L. was visited by Riverside County Sheriff’s Detective Gary Thompson. Detective Thompson presented Conya L. with a photographic lineup for the purposes of identifying the third perpetrator. Conya L. identified a man named Shawn Ford, but it was later discovered that Shawn Ford had been incarcerated on July 15, 1995, and could not have been the third perpetrator.