In re Murray CA2/8

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY1

On April 3, 2006, 17-year-old Christopher Murray shot and killed Christopher Trevizo and Demetries Flores, and shot at but missed Flores’s brother Damon. Accompanying Murray were Angelo Vasquez and Salvador Villanueva, who pointed guns at each of the Flores brothers, but fired no shots. Murray was angry at Trevizo because Trevizo stole marijuana from Murray at gunpoint a few months earlier. Murray and his companions confronted Trevizo and the Flores brothers after following them as they walked along a secluded wash. Murray was charged as an adult and entered an open plea of no contest to the first degree murders of Trevizo and Demetries Flores, and to the attempted murder of Damon Flores, subject to a trial on the issue of whether he was insane when the crimes occurred. After the jury found Murray had been sane, the trial court imposed the following

Our statement of facts is taken in large part from the third of our three previous decisions in this matter. (In re Murray (Dec. 20, 2013, B223024) [nonpub.opn.] (Murray

III).)

2 sentence: As to each of the two murder counts, life without parole (LWOP) because multiple victims meant they…