Legal Opinion
People v. Rivas
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 29, 2013No. H036974PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
A MÁRQUEZ, J.
A jury convicted defendants Valentin Navarro Rivas and Benjamin Puga Carrillo of the first degree murder of James Lopez and of *1414firing a gun into an occupied vehicle. It also found true sentence enhancement allegations that Rivas used a gun and that both defendants committed the murder to benefit a criminal street gang. And it found that defendants were principals, either as the perpetrator or as an accomplice, in Rivas’s intentional firing of a gun into an occupied vehicle, resulting in Lopez’s death. (Pen. Code, §§ 186.22, subd. (b), 187, subd. (a), 246, 12022.5, subd.…
2Cases cited43 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Estelle v. McGuireSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Brecht v. AbrahamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
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3Cited by34 opinions
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