A List With Forty-Two Names

Ronnie Yandell's and Billy Sylvester's non-public witness list is unsealed.

A time-honored California prison tradition is for defendants to list fellow prisoners on their witness list and subpoena them to testify. The inmate witnesses get pulled down to court and 1) a reunion is held; 2) business is conducted; 3) a hit is carried out; or 4) some combination of the three. Charles Manson and The Onion Field Killers did this. Form…