LOS ANGELES—A state appeals court panel on Feb. 10 reversed the murder convictions of two women in connection with a shooting that left one man dead and another person wounded outside a Westlake District church a decade ago. The three-justice panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal noted in its opinion that the state legislature “substantially modified the law relating to accomplice liability for murder and attempted murder” while the appeals of Janeth Lopez, now 31, and Ivy Navarrete, now 40, were pending. The panel ordered the case to be remanded to give the prosecution an opportunity to retry the two on a “legally viable theory of murder and attempted murder and to retry the criminal gang enhancement” involving the Nov. 4, 2012, killing of Andres Ordonez, while upholding their November 2015 convictions for vandalism. The two were charged along with Pedro Martinez, who was described in the appellate …
Convictions of Two Women Reversed for Deadly Shooting Outside Church
February 10, 2022
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