Legal Opinion
People v. DeHoyos
California Supreme Court
Decided July 8, 2013No. S034800PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
CANTIL-SAKAUYE, C. J.
A jury found defendant Richard Lucio DeHoyos guilty of the 1989 first degree murder of nine-year-old Nadia Puente. (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a).) The jury determined defendant had kidnapped her in order to commit child molestation and that he raped, sodomized, and committed a lewd and lascivious act upon her. (§§ 207, subd. (b), 261, subd. (a)(2), 288, subd. (a); former § 286, subd. (c), as amended by Stats. 1988, ch. 1243, § 6, p. 4133 (now § 286, subd. (c)(1)).) The jury found true the special circumstances that the murder was committed while engaged in the…
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