P. v. Galvez
Shortly after noon on March 20, 2005, sixteen year old gang member David Alejandro Galvez (defendant) took a .22 caliber semi automatic rifle, drove with two accomplices into the territory of a rival gang on what the trial court characterized as a hunting trip, and murdered two young men. A jury convicted defendant of two counts of first degree murder (Pen. Code, 187, subd. (a)) with a multiple murder special circumstance ( 190.2, subd. (a)(3)). The jury also found true the allegations that defendant personally used a firearm causing great bodily injury or death ( 12022.53, subd. (d)), and that the murders were committed for the benefit of a street gang ( 186.22, subd. (b)(1)(A)). The trial court sentenced defendant to two terms of life without the possibility of parole (LWOP), plus two terms of 25 years to life for the firearm enhancement, and ordered the sentences to run consecutively. The trial court struck the gang enhancement. Court affirm the judgment.
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