P. v. Barela CA4/1
A jury found defendant Jesse Orlando Barela, Jr. guilty of two attempted murders (Pen. Code, §§ 664/187, subd. (a), counts 1 & 2), corporal injury to a spouse (§ 273.5, subd. (a), count 3), and felony child abuse (§ 273a, subd. (a), count 4). The jury found true that each attempted murder was willful, deliberate, and premeditated (§ 189). As to each offense, the jury found true that Barela personally inflicted great bodily injury on the victim (§ 12022.7 subds. (a) & (e)) and personally used a deadly weapon, a knife, in committing the offense (§§ 1192.7, subd. (c)(23), 12022, subd. (b)(1)). As to count 3, the jury found true that Barela, within the previous seven years, had been convicted of violating section 243, subdivision (e), within the meaning of section 273.5, subdivision (f)(2). The court sentenced Barela to two consecutive life terms with the possibility of parole, consecutive to nine years in prison.
Barela now appeals, asserting, as a matter of law, that the
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