Legal Opinion
People v. Garcia
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided March 22, 1984No. 81CA1283PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BERMAN, Judge.
Defendant, Jesus Barrientos Garcia, appeals his conviction by a jury of the first degree murder of Herman Maestas. We affirm.
On April 8, 1981, Herman Maestas failed to attend work and a phone call to his apartment was unanswered. On April 9, 1981, Maestas’ body was discovered in his apartment. A pathologist later testified that Maestas had been dead two or three days before the body was discovered. Part of a towel was protruding from the victim’s mouth and an electrical cord was found tied around his neck.
The pathologist’s autopsy revealed that Maestas had been struck on the…
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