Legal Opinion
People v. Blessett
California Court of Appeal, 5th District
Decided April 30, 2018No. C074267PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMurray, J.
*910After an argument precipitated by references to their respective gangs, the victim Christopher Sisoukchaleun, took off his shirt to fight defendant Antoine Lamar Blessett. Instead, defendant followed Sisoukchaleun into the street and shot him between the eyes at nearly point-blank range with a firearm he had retrieved only moments earlier from his pickup truck, which was parked nearby. Defendant then fired a second close-range shot, striking Sisoukchaleun in the torso.
A jury found defendant guilty of the first degree murder ( Pen. Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 189 )1 and possession of a firearm by…
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