P. v. Roa CA4/2
Defendants and appellants Gilbert Roa (Roa) and Josue Avilio Ortez (Ortez), who was a minor when he committed these crimes, appeal from their convictions by separate juries. Defendants and an unidentified third male went to a park. Two of them approached a young man sitting in a vehicle and Ortez picked a fight with him. The second male joined the fight as Ortez was losing, eventually followed by the young man’s friend after he awoke from being asleep in his van. Upon finding themselves on the losing end of the fist fight Ortez had started, Ortez called on the third male, who had remained hidden, and the three males pulled out knives and stabbed the two young men. The two young men suffered serious physical and nonphysical wounds that severely affected their lives.
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