The California Supreme Court will review the case of convicted murderer David Bartlett Seidel. Seidel was convicted in 1994 of the 1991 murder of Hesperia Pawn Shop owner Harvey Wolcott and customer Donald Howie.
Seidel was convicted on two counts of murder, one count of robbery and one count of burglary.
He is serving time at California State Prison, Solano, between San Francisco and Sacramento.
In 2022, Seidel petitioned to be resentenced under Penal Code Section 1172.6. The section provides retroactive relief for people convicted of murder under a now-defunct natural and probable consequences theory. Under that theory, a person who commits a crime that
