P. v. Zumini CA4/1
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Santa Clara County, Vanessa A. Zecher, Judge. Reversed and remanded.
Solomon Wollack, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey M. Laurence, Assistant Attorney General, Donna M. Provenzano, and Victoria Ratnikova, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.
Defendant Andrew Zumini, on trial for the first degree murder of his father, sought to introduce evidence of his father’s history of threats and violence toward Zumini and others. The trial court excluded this evidence on the ground that it was irrelevant to Zumini’s claims that he acted in self-defense or the heat of passion when he killed his father. After deliberating for several days, the jury convicted Zumini of first degree murder and also found true the allegation that he personally and intentionally discharged a firearm causing death.
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