Legal Opinion
People v. Benavides
California Supreme Court
Decided February 17, 2005No. S033440PublishedCited by 204 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BROWN, J.
A jury found defendant Vicente Figueroa Benavides guilty of the murder of Consuelo Verdugo (Pen. Code, § 187), 1 finding that he committed the murder under the special circumstances of felony-murder rape, felony-murder sodomy, and felony-murder lewd conduct (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(C), (D), (E)). The jury also found defendant guilty of rape, sodomy, and lewd conduct (§§ 261, former subd. (2), 286, former subd. (c), 288, subd. (a)) against Consuelo, and that he inflicted great bodily injury in the commission of the sodomy and lewd conduct (§ 12022.8). At the penalty phase the…
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