Legal Opinion
People v. Muniz
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided April 3, 2008No. 03CA0268PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge J. JONES.
Defendant, Michael Muniz, appeals the judgment of conviction entered on jury verdicts finding him guilty of one count of see-ond degree murder and two counts of a crime of violence. We reverse and remand for a new trial.
I. Background
On July 2, 1996, K.B. (the victim) returned home after visiting a Target store. Shortly thereafter, her neighbors, a husband and wife and their three daughters, heard yelling and screaming coming from across the street. On their way to investigate the screams, the neighbors observed a man running from the area of the screams to his "boxy"…
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