State v. Fierroa

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the absence of premeditation supported conclusion that defendant killed in fear of his own life and therefore it should be weighed in mitigation
• holding that the absence of premeditation supported conclusion that defendant killed in fear of his own life and therefore it should be weighed in mitigation
• holding that a murderer created a grave risk of death to his victim's girlfriend when he fired several shots at the victim while the girlfriend was sitting next to the victim in the front seat of a car
• finding victim’s girlfriend was in zone of danger when defendant fired several shots at victim, striking him once and narrowly missing his girlfriend whom the defendant knew was seated nearby
• interpreting “so as to injure or abuse” to require “intent to injure or abuse”
• a defendant must prove the existence of mitigating circumstances by a preponderance of the evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).