People v. Saucedo
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Saucedo was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of evading a police officer causing injury, after a stolen truck he was driving collided with another truck and killed two young girls. He was sentenced to prison for 15 years to life, consecutive to a term of seven years plus eight months for the evading and taking charges.
The court of appeal affirmed in part, rejecting challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence, to the jury instructions, to the admission of autopsy photos, and to the exclusion of evidence about the victims or of Saucedo’s assertion that his foot slipped. The trial court erred in admitting testimony regarding numerous minor driving offenses committed by Saucedo to prove he acted with implied malice, but the error was nonprejudicial. The court reversed the conviction for evading. The deputy did not turn on the lights or siren until Saucedo turned off the highway down an embankment, the collision occurred only two to five seconds later, the deputy testified he was 15 car lengths behind at that moment, and there is no evidence Saucedo looked back or should have heard the sirens at that distance.
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