People v. Cevallos-Acosta

Defendant, Camilo Cevallos-Acosta, appeals the judgment of conviction entered on jury verdicts finding him guilty of first degree murder, second degree assault, third degree assault, and two menacing charges. We reverse one of the menacing convictions and otherwise affirm.

According to the People’s evidence, several witnesses observed defendant on the victim’s back porch immediately before the murder, and one witness saw him with a knife. When the victim drove up behind the house, M.S., her fourteen-year-old son, saw defendant, with a knife, drag the victim out of the truck and say he was…