PEOPLE v. CORTES

No. H032799.

192 Cal.App.4th 873 (2011)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. LEOPOLDO ALEJANDRO CORTES, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

January 11, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Schorr , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler , Assistant Attorney General, Rene A. Chacon and David M. Baskind , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

McADAMS, J.

A jury convicted defendant Leopoldo Alejandro Cortes of murder in the first degree and found true the allegation that he used a deadly and dangerous weapon, a knife, in the commission of the murder. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, 12022, subd. (b)(1).)1 He was sentenced to prison for 25 years to life, consecutive to one year for the weapon...

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