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PEOPLE v. ORDONEZ

Docket No. B034210.

226 Cal.App.3d 1207 (1991)

277 Cal. Rptr. 382

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MARCO TULIO ORDONEZ, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

January 15, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Jeffrey J. Stuetz, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Richard B. Iglehart, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Edward T. Fogel, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, William T. Harter and Andrew D. Amerson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

EPSTEIN, J.

In this case, we decide that the crime of kidnapping for ransom, extortion or reward (Pen. Code, § 209, subd. (a)) involves a substantial risk of death to the victim and therefore supports a conviction of second degree murder on a felony-murder theory.1 We also resolve numerous other issues concerning defendant's conviction of second...

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