Jury recommends death penalty for Robert Dunson
A Riverside jury has recommended a death sentence for an ex-con who fatally beat and slashed a Canadian businessman during an Indio robbery.
Robert Lee Dunson, 33, killed 48-year-old William George Dobbs in November 2007. Jurors deliberated one day in the penalty phase of Dunson’s trial before returning with a verdict.
The same panel found the defendant guilty last month of first-degree murder and found true special circumstance allegations that he killed the victim during a kidnapping and in the commission of a robbery.
Dunson is scheduled to be formally sentenced on May 15.
