PEOPLE v. KARAPETYAN

No. C048289.

45 Cal.Rptr.3d 245 (2006)

140 Cal.App.4th 1172

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Gagik KARAPETYAN, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

June 27, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Christiansen, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and J. Robert Jibson and Jesse Witt, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


Certified for Partial Publication.*

NICHOLSON, J.

On September 2, 2003, at approximately 11:00 p.m., Sacramento Police Officer Barry Lee responded to a reported stabbing. Upon arrival, he found the victim Andrey Tsurkanu already dead with six men surrounding the body. Several days later, defendant Gagik Karapetyan walked into a sheriff's department substation and confessed to killing Andrey. He was tried and convicted of second...

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