People v. Orcalles

Defendant, Louis Or calles, was charged with the murder of Benny Padilla and with assaulting Nick Gundran with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder. He pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. A jury found him guilty of murder of the first degree and imposed the death penalty. They failed to return a verdict on the count which charged the crime of assault and on motion of the People such count was dismissed. The issue raised by defendant’s plea of not guilty by reason of insanity was then tried before the same jury and they found that he was sane at the time of the…