P. v. Mendez CA4/1
As set forth in this court’s earlier opinion, “In early September 2005, a Caltrans worker found the body of Angel Palacios on the side of eastbound Interstate 10, near the Eagle Mountain Road exit in Riverside County. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition and clothed only in shorts and boxers. Palacios’s last contacts were several telephone calls with Laura Grijalva on August 26, 2005. He told her that two friends were driving him back to Tucson, Arizona. Palacios never arrived in Arizona.” (People v. Mendez (Aug. 22, 2018, D073443) [nonpub. opn.] (Mendez I).) “Palacios had 30 to 40 sharp force injuries, consisting of stabbing wounds, chopping wounds and incised wounds. The chopping wounds could have been caused by a machete. Palacios also had three or four blunt force injuries on the top and back of his head, caused with force great enough to depress his skull. The cause of death was multiple sharp force trauma.
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