Palm Springs quadruple homicide trial: murder case in jury's hands again
A prosecutor described the killings as "executions." The defense attorney said his client ran away only because he was fleeing the real shooter.
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A prosecutor described the killings as "executions." The defense attorney said his client ran away only because he was fleeing the real shooter.
The defense filed motions for mistrial and to dismiss the retrial of quadruple homicide case.
Jose Vladimir Larin-Garcia is charged with four counts of first-degree murder for the Feb. 3, 2019, deaths of Jacob Montgomery, 19, Juan Duarte Raya, 18, Yuliana Garcia, 17, and Carlos Campos Rivera,…
Jose Larin-Garcia is charged in a 2019 shooting that a prosecutor called a drug deal gone bad.
'Do not convict him on this paucity of evidence,' defense lawyer John Patrick Dolan told jurors. But prosecutors called the case a 'mass murder.'