People v. Nieto

After nine days of trial, a jury found defendant Juan Nieto guilty of murder in the second degree.

Testimony established that Juan and some of his relatives were accosted by the victim, Jesse Alvia, and some of Jesse’s friends, following a nighttime wedding reception in Adrian, Michigan. This confrontation apparently stemmed from previous altercations between Jesse, and Juan and Juan’s nephew. After Jesse fired several shots from a pistol he fled across a street into a parking lot, with several people in pursuit. The defendant admits chasing Jesse across the street but denies that he caught…