P. v. Bealer CA3
After a change of venue to Sacramento County, a jury found defendant Quentin Ray Bealer guilty of the first degree murder in 2013 of a 14-year-old high school student in Red Bluff. The trial court, sitting in Tehama County, sentenced defendant to state prison for an indeterminate life term. Defendant appealed in September 2016; his briefing was complete in July 2018 upon his failure to file a reply brief.
Defendant contends the trial court erroneously allowed the introduction of character evidence regarding his sexual conduct with a former girlfriend that indicated a predilection for a girl in her teens, and contests the sufficiency of the evidence to support the various theories of first degree murder on which the trial court instructed the jury. We shall affirm the judgment.
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