Fifteen hours passed before Cody Molica picked up the phone to report his father’s death. By the time sheriff’s deputies arrived, the 80-year-old lay face down beneath a blanket, a revolver under his body — and what investigators later said looked like a staged gunfight.

Now, Molica, 39, is on trial in Sonoma County Superior Court, accused of killing his father, Richard Molica, at the family’s Stony Point Road home north of Rohnert Park.

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Deputy District Attorney Adam McBride told jurors the evidence would show the shooting was deliberate and that Molica tried to mislead investigators. Defense attorney Eric Loftman countered that the elder Molica fired first and that his client acted in self-defense during a gunfight between father and son.

Investigators found the victi

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