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PEOPLE v. DUNGO

No. C055923.

176 Cal.App.4th 1388 (2009)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. REYNALDO SANTOS DUNGO, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

August 24, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Hopkins, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, David A. Rhodes and Daniel B. Bernstein, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BLEASE, Acting P. J.—

Defendant Reynaldo Santos Dungo admitted choking his girlfriend Lucinda Correia Pina to death, but claimed he did so only after he was provoked to the point of losing control, and thus, was guilty of at most voluntary manslaughter. The jury disagreed and found defendant guilty of second degree murder, in part on the basis of the testimony of a pathologist (Dr. Robert Lawrence). (Pen. Code, § 187, subd...

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