P. v. Reyes CA6
Defendant Juvenal Angel Reyes was sentenced to a term of life in prison without parole after a jury found him guilty of burglary, as well as of kidnapping to extort and to rob, torture, assault with a deadly weapon, criminal threats, robbery of an inhabited place committed in concert, and grand theft person. It began when Reyes remarked to three day laborers that the neighbor, Gary Wise, was rich. The group discussed a plan to burglarize Wise’s house while he was out. Reyes was not present during the burglary when his coparticipants changed the plan and ambushed Wise, then beat and tortured him for the codes to his safes. The jury was instructed that if it found Reyes guilty of the burglary as a coconspirator or as an aider and abettor, it could find him guilty of the other charges under the natural and probable consequences doctrine.
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