State v. Bernal

OPINION

LIVERMORE, Judge.

Defendant and four women, including the victim, spent the evening of October 16, 1983, drinking. Late that night, defendant drove the women to an after-hours bar in South Tucson. On the way there the victim passed out. When they arrived, the three conscious women entered the bar; when they came out, defendant, the victim, and the car were gone. The next day, the victim’s horribly mutilated body was recovered from a trash dumpster. Death had been caused by strangulation and multiple stab wounds. Later that day, the defendant turned himself into the Tucson police and…