People v. Dodge CA3

I. BACKGROUND

On February 7, 2019, the victim’s body was found in a tree line near a turnout on Eddy Creek Road in Siskiyou County. There was a pool of blood on the side of the road and a trail of blood from the edge of the road to the body. A detective with the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department who responded to the scene opined based on this evidence, the location of four shell casings, and indentations in the gravel, that the victim was on

The court granted the prosecution’s request to dismiss the other prior strike allegation.

2 his knees on the shoulder of the road when he was shot in the back of the head and then dragged by the legs into the tree line. The forensic pathologist who performed the autopsy on the victim testified that there were abrasions on his back from being dragged. There were three gunshot entrance wounds in the back of the head and upper neck area. The forensic pathologist opined that the cause of death was the gunshot wounds to the head and that the gun was fired from more than a foot away. R. testified she was defendant’s friend and had known him for 10 years. She met the victim through another friend and had helped him buy marijuana. The victim…