P. v. Duenas CA3
Defendant Mark Gilbert Duenas appeals following his conviction for first degree murder of his wife, Karen Duenas, in her bedroom in their Cottonwood home in Shasta County. (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a); unless otherwise set forth, statutory section references that follow are found in the Penal Code.) Defendant claims evidentiary and instructional error and ineffective assistance of counsel in failing to make evidentiary objections to criminalist experiments with blood, law enforcement officer testimony about blood, and the value of retirement assets defendant might lose in a divorce. The guilty verdict came in a second trial after a jury at a first trial was unable to reach a verdict.
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