Week in Review : MAJOR EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEWS : COURTS : Drug Supplier Guilty in Death of PCP User
In the first conviction of its kind in Orange County, a Huntington Beach man was found guilty of second-degree murder in a drug-related incident in which an overdose was not the cause of death.
Jurors found Mark E. Taylor, 30, guilty of murder in the death of Adrian Obregon, 18, because the PCP that Taylor sold Obregon so incapacitated him that he was unable to save himself from drowning in the ocean off Huntington Beach.
Superior Court Judge Richard J. Beacom told the jurors that the case is unique.
“There never was a case like it on the facts that were presented to a jury in this county and perhaps in the state,” Beacom said.
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