P. v. Mendez CA4/1
Defendant Herbert Cornejo Mendez was convicted of the first degree murder of Angel Palacios, with the special circumstance of lying-in-wait, with personal use of a deadly weapon. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 190.2, subd. (a)(15), 12022, subd. (b)(1), 1192.7, subd. (c)(23).) The primary evidence against Mendez was provided by Mendez's confessions to law enforcement officials. Mendez contends that the first two confessions, which were conducted by an FBI agent in El Salvador, were involuntary, and that these confessions tainted the voluntariness of his two later confessions to a Riverside County Deputy Sheriff, so that all his confessions must be excluded.
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