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    Edgardo Sanchez - California Death Row

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    Maywood police officer John A. Hoglund

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    Sanchez in 2007


    Facts of the Crime:

    Is the convicted triggerman in the fatal shootings of a Maywood police officer and a Van Nuys grocer during a December 31, 1991 crime spree. John Hoglund, 46, the first Maywood police officer ever killed in the line of duty, was shot as he was checking a grocery store where a burglar alarm had gone off. Also killed during the string of holdups, carried out with two other men, was Lee Chul Kim, 49, who ran the Woodley Market in Van Nuys.

    Fuentes was sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on January 20, 1995.

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    The prosecution filed a response to Sanchez's initial brief on July 12, 2013.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S045423

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    Sanchez's case has been fully briefed on direct appeal before the California Supreme Court since October 16, 2014.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S045423

    On March 30, 2015, Sanchez filed a habeas petition before the California Supreme Court.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S225373

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    On April 6, 2016, oral argument will be heard in Sanchez's direct appeal before the California Supreme Court.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S045423

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    THE PEOPLE v EDGARDO SANCHEZ

    Court: California Supreme Court

    Opinion Date: June 23, 2016

    After a jury trial, Defendant was convicted of two counts of first degree murder, attempted murder, twenty-six counts of robbery, two counts of attempted robbery, five counts of assault with a deadly weapon, and two counts of assaults with a stun gun. The jury returned a verdict of death, and the trial court imposed a judgment of death. The Supreme Court reversed one robbery count, modified the determinate prison sentence accordingly, and otherwise affirmed, holding (1) no reversible error occurred in the selection of the jury; (2) the trial court did not prejudicially err in its evidentiary rulings; (3) the evidence was insufficient as to one of the robberies; (4) the evidence was sufficient to support the attempted murder conviction; (5) Defendant’s claims of instructional error failed; (6) no prejudicial error occurred during the penalty phase of trial; and (7) Defendant’s challenges to California’s death penalty law failed.
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    Cop killer must die: High court rejects appeal

    The California Supreme Court Thursday upheld a man's death sentence for murdering a Maywood police officer and the owner of a Van Nuys market during a 5-month crime spree.

    The state's highest court rejected the defense's contention that there were errors in Edgardo Sanchez's trial for the May 4, 1992, killing of Lee Chul Kim, the owner of Woodley Market in Van Nuys, and the May 29, 1992, killing of Maywood Police Officer John Hoglund, shot while responding to a silent alarm activated during a robbery at George's Market in Maywood.

    Along with the murders, Sanchez was convicted of 1 count of attempted murder, 2 counts each of attempted robbery and assault with a stun gun, 5 counts of assault with a deadly weapon and 26 counts of robbery stemming from takeover-style robberies starting on New Year's Eve of 1991 at a Sun Valley bar and stretching through mid-1992 at businesses in Paramount, South Gate and Maywood.

    The state's highest court overturned Sanchez's conviction on a robbery count involving 1 of the 5 employees at a Van Nuys supermarket in April 1992, noting that the employee could not be located to testify at Sanchez's trial and finding that there was insufficient evidence to support his conviction on that charge.

    Sanchez was sentenced to death in March 1995, telling a judge and relatives of his victims, "I deserve it."

    "I ask that the victims forgive me," he said through an interpreter. "At that time, I did not know what I was doing. I had no respect for God and I had no knowledge of love."

    Sanchez - who testified during the penalty phase of his trial that he had undergone a religious conversion in jail - told jurors that he shot Kim only after the grocer shot him first, Chin noted in the ruling.

    Kim dropped the keys to the store's cash drawer and a money bag he had been carrying after returning from a bank and tried to close a freezer door, then pleaded with a man identified by 2 of the store's employees as Sanchez not to do anything to him, according to the ruling. Kim was shot eight times by 2 different guns, and evidence indicated that he managed to get some shots off from his own .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun, according to the ruling.

    25 days later, Hoglund's police vehicle was found parked in front of the market in Maywood with his bullet-riddled body partly inside the car with his legs outside and his firearm in its unsnapped holster after he responded to a silent alarm regarding a robbery in progress, according to the ruling. The 46-year-old father of 3, who was shot 3 times, was the 1st Maywood police officer to die in the line of duty.

    On behalf of the panel, Associate Justice Ming W. Chin wrote that "eyewitness identifications were far from the only evidence connecting defendant to the crimes."

    "He was caught on videotape robbing George's Market," Chin wrote.

    The justices noted that Sanchez "literally ran out of his shoe" after robbing a restaurant in Paramount on May 17, 1992.

    "The ballistics evidence, together with other evidence, strongly showed that defendant was the gunman who fired shots during 3 of the robberies," Chin wrote.

    Co-defendants Benjamin Navarro and Jose Contreras, who were charged along with him in many of the crimes, also were convicted. They were sentenced to life in prison.

    http://mynewsla.com/crime/2016/06/23...ejects-appeal/

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Sanchez's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of California
    Case Nos.: (S045423)
    Decision Date: June 23, 2016

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....es/16-7533.htm

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    Sanchez's habeas case has been fully briefed before the California Supreme Court since May 4, 2017.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...1TQCAgCg%3D%3D

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