PEOPLE v. VALDEZ

Nos. C036614, C037039.

23 Cal.Rptr.3d 909 (2005)

126 Cal.App.4th 575

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Elisio VALDEZ, Defendant and Appellant. The People, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Johnnie Ray Peraza, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

Review Denied May 11, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Bonneau, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Elisio Valdez.

Cliff Gardner, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Johnnie Ray Peraza.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Stephen G. Herndon and David Andrew Eldridge, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


Certified for Partial Publication.*

SCOTLAND, P.J.

Defendants Elisio Valdez and Johnnie Ray Peraza were convicted of various crimes, including the murders of Andrea Mestas and her fetus, the premeditated attempted murder of Ronny Giminez, and the false imprisonment and aggravated assault of Nancy Davis. The crimes were committed at separate times and in separate places. The prosecutor theorized that defendants went to Mestas's...

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