LOS ANGELES – A state appeals court panel Tuesday upheld an Inglewood man’s conviction for fatally stabbing a woman he had briefly dated and killing her dog before setting fire to her Pomona apartment nearly six years ago.
The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected the defense’s contentions that a judge had wrongly denied Chaumon Tyner his right to act as his own attorney during his trial and that his attorney had provided ineffective assistance.
Tyner, now 55, was convicted of first-degree murder for the March 2019 killing of Ronny Wall, along with one count each of animal cruelty and arson of an inhabited dwelling…