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    Todd Givens - California Death Row


    Todd Givens


    Facts of the Crime:

    On April 1, 2001, husband and wife Todd and Lacey Givens murdered siblings Barry and Patreace Holstone. Todd shot Barry several times and when he ran out of bullets he stabbed Barry with a sickle. Lacey shot Patreace in the head. The Givens then disposed of the bodies in an olive orchard and set the car on fire to keep others from identifying the bodies. The prosecution argued Todd was part of a Nazi Low Rider prison gang, and the gang wanted Barry killed. Todd argued he acted alone and killed the Holstones in self-defense. Todd represented himself during the trial.

    Givens was sentenced to death in Tulare County on July 6, 2004.

    NOTE: He was also involved in a yard stabbing on August 28, 2006 of fellow death-row inmate Curtis Price who was stabbed in his face, neck and head. Price was choked and stabbed by Givens and two other inhabitants of death row: David Anthony Breaux and Christopher Poore.

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    Counsel was appointed to represent Givens on direct appeal before the California Supreme Court on August 19, 2008.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...tRICAgCg%3D%3D

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    On June 26, 2017, a prosecution brief was filed in response to Givens' initial brief.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...tRICAgCg%3D%3D

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    Givens' direct appeal has been fully briefed before the California Supreme Court since July 17, 2019.

    https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca....tRICAgCg%3D%3D

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    Condemned Killer Todd Givens Investigated For San Quentin Death Row Guard Attack

    Condemned killer Todd Givens, on San Quentin’s Death Row for a pair of Tulare County murders, allegedly attempted to slash a guard’s neck with a prison-made weapon while being served breakfast, according to prison officials.

    San Quentin officials said the incident took place Thursday morning in a death row housing unit as a correctional officer was picking up food trays following breakfast.

    Givens tried to slash the officer in his neck with an inmate-made weapon that had two razor blades and a sharpened, broken piece of nail clippers attached to it. The officer grabbed the weapon with his left hand. As Givens pulled the weapon back, it slashed the officer’s hand.

    The offier was taken to a hospital where he received five stitches and was released. Givens was re-housed in the Adjustment Center pending the investigation.

    Givens, 51, and his wife, Lacey, 43, were convicted of murdering Barry Scott Holstone, 30, of Earlimart, and his sister, Patreace Holstone, 32, of Porterville in 1997. Their bodies were found inside a burning car in an olive orchard near Givens’ home at the time.

    He was sentenced to death in 2004 on charges that included first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon, intentional discharge of a firearm causing great bodily injury/death, another first-degree murder conviction, arson of property, and arson of a structure on forest land.

    Lacey was sentenced to life without parole at the women’s state prison in Chowchilla.

    During his trial, prosecutors argued the Holstones were killed because the Nazi Low Riders prison gang wanted Barry killed.

    https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...-guard-attack/
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