PEOPLE v. AVILA

No. S045982.

43 Cal.Rptr.3d 1 (2006)

38 Cal.4th 491

133 P.3d 1076

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Johnny AVILA, Jr., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

May 15, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark E. Cutler, Sacramento, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Assistant Attorney General, Eric L. Christopherson and Louis M. Vasquez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


BAXTER, J.

During the late night and early morning hours of July 31 and August 1, 1991, two young women, Dorothy Medina and Arlene Sanchez, attended a gathering in rural Fresno, where Medina was brutally gang-raped. She and Sanchez were then driven to a canal bank and killed.

In 1994, a Fresno County jury convicted defendant Johnny Avila, Jr., codefendant Richard Avila, who is also defendant's cousin, and codefendant Jeffrey Spradlin, of two counts of first...

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