California Court of Appeal

Convictions for second degree murder of victim's fetus and the multiple murder special circumstance findings are reversed where medical evidence revealed that the fetus had an existing infection and would not live through the second trimester.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/25/2003
• Published 06/25/2003

Judges

• SCOTLAND, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• 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.