P. v. Patel CA2/8
Twenty-one years after the 1991 murder of Usha Patel, her husband, defendant Shanker Patel, was arrested for the crime. Defendant was prosecuted on a murder-for-hire theory. The jury did not reach a verdict in defendant’s first trial. In the second, the jury convicted him of first degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a)) and found lying-in-wait special circumstances to be true (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(15)). The trial court sentenced defendant to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Defendant raises a host of issues on appeal. The Attorney General concedes only that a probation revocation fine was improperly opposed. Finding a number of issues forfeited and no prejudicial error except for the conceded one, we modify the judgment and affirm.
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