People v. McVey
Annotate this CaseThe Court of Appeal affirmed defendant's conviction of voluntary manslaughter and felony vandalism. The court held that the trial court properly excluded evidence that the victim was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and had behaved aggressively in two prior confrontations with police 20 years earlier. The court declined to remand for reconsideration of defendant's firearm enhancement, holding that the trial court's comments at sentencing unequivocally indicated that it would not exercise its new discretion under Penal Code section 12022.5, subdivision (c) to dismiss the enhancement.
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