People v. Mares
Annotate this CaseIn the case before the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Fourth Appellate District, Division Two, the defendant, Daniel Oliver Mares, had appealed from an order that denied his petition to vacate his voluntary manslaughter conviction and resentence him under Penal Code section 1172.6. Mares had pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter while facing a murder charge. The record of conviction includes the preliminary hearing transcript, where police recounted Mares’s admissions that he stabbed the victim and acted alone. Mares claimed in his petition that he could not be convicted today due to changes made to the murder laws in 2019 legislation. The court determined that Mares had failed to make a prima facie showing for relief, as he was the actual killer and acted alone in stabbing the victim. The court's decision was based on the record of conviction, which contained uncontradicted facts that refuted Mares’s assertion. Therefore, the court affirmed the trial court’s decision to deny Mares's petition.
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