P. v. Guadarrama CA4/3
After years of a happy and uneventful marriage, appellant Juan Carlos Guadarrama encountered several personal tragedies and began drinking to excess. He started accusing his wife Amalia of sexual indiscretions. Then he accused her of maintaining an illicit sexual relationship with her sister Anita. He obsessed over this for months, going so far as to secretly record her conversations and replay them to Amalia, insisting they proved that she and Anita were engaged in abhorrent conduct.
Finally he and Amalia separated. One day he called and asked for a ride to work. She drove to his location and picked him up. In fact, his place of employment was closed. He took a BB gun out of his back pack and shot her repeatedly. Then he attacked her with a large knife. Amalia fled, but not before receiving wounds serious enough to require 13 days of hospitalization, including time in intensive care and 2 surgeries.
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