People v. Bonnaudet CA2/1

Filed 5/2/22 P. v. Bonnaudet CA2/1 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

THE PEOPLE, B309787

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. SA043504) v.

NORA ANDAYA BONNAUDET,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Yvette Verastegui, Judge. Dismissed. ____________________________

Daniel G. Koryn, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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In 2002, a jury convicted defendant and appellant Nora Andaya Bonnaudet of one count of first degree murder (Pen. Code,1 § 187, subd. (a)) for the death of her husband, Georges Bonnaudet. The jury also found true a special circumstance allegation that she committed the offense for financial gain. (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(1).) The trial court sentenced her to life in prison without the possibility of parole. We described the facts of the case in detail in our opinion in Bonnaudet’s direct appeal, People v. Bonnaudet (July 27, 2004, B164987) [nonpub. opn.], and we will summarize them only briefly here: In 1989, Georges2 executed a will leaving almost all his possessions to Bonnaudet. The relationship later soured, and Bonnaudet began having an affair at some point before December 2000. In the year before his death in 2001, Georges told friends that he wanted to divorce Bonnaudet and did not want her to receive any of his money. On the morning of October 5, 2001, two unidentified men attacked Georges in a public parking lot, took nothing, and fled. Georges went to the hospital, received treatment, and was discharged. At around 8:50 p.m. that evening, Bonnaudet went into a restaurant and screamed that she needed the police. She claimed that the same men who had attacked Georges that morning had returned, beaten Georges, and put him in the front seat of an automobile nearby. Paramedics arrived on the scene a few minutes later. Bonnaudet told the paramedics that the attack had just happened, but the paramedics found that Georges’s body was