A San Bernardino man fatally shot a man outside a Cathedral City home in 2019 and left him screaming in pain in the street over stolen property, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday, but a defense attorney insisted that his client was wrongly accused and, in a haze of chaos, shot the decedent to avoid getting shot himself.
A judge Tuesday denied the defense’s motion for a mistrial and will exclude new evidence in the retrial of a Cathedral City man accused of gunning down four people in Palm Springs.
A judge Monday took under advisement a defense motion for mistrial in the case against a Cathedral City man accused of gunning down four people in Palm Springs, with the defendant’s attorney claiming a piece of evidence in the case was mishandled and violated his right to a fair trial.
The defense Monday will ask a judge to declare a mistrial and dismiss the case against a Cathedral City man accused of gunning down four people in Palm Springs, claiming a piece of evidence in the case was mishandled and violated the defendant’s right to a fair trial.
The defense filed motions for mistrial and to dismiss the retrial of quadruple homicide case, in which a Cathedral City man is accused of gunning down four people in Palm Springs, claiming new evidence will make it impossible for the defendant to face a fair trial and violates his right to a fair retrial, according to court documents obtained Friday.
