People v. Preciado-Flores

Opinion by

Judge METZGER.

Defendant, Francisco Javier Preciado, Flores, appeals the judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of accessory to criminally negligent homicide. He also appeals his sentence. We affirm.

According to the evidence at trial, defendant, age nineteen, and an acquaintance, age sixteen, were alone in defendant's apartment. Late that afternoon, someone came to the apartment and shot the acquaintance, who later died.

Police initially suspected defendant of the killing and charged him with second degree murder. - During interrogation, defendant first…