Overview
- Jurors deliberated for less than a day before convicting Charters on all counts, including murder, kidnapping and home-invasion robbery.
- He is the third of four defendants found guilty in the 2019 case involving Atre's abduction and killing.
- Prosecutors say Atre was taken from his Pleasure Point home and later found dead at his cannabis property in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
- Co-defendants Stephen Lindsay and Kurtis Charters were previously sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
- The remaining defendant, Joshua Camps, is accused of firing the fatal shots and remains in custody with court proceedings scheduled to continue in January 2026.