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9 de jul. de 2022 · A resident of Sonora, California, Cheryl Lynn Lucero was 46 years old at the time of Ricky Robert’s murder. While reports say she was well acquainted with the former demolition derby champion, the show seemed to indicate that the two allegedly embarked on an extramarital affair.
4 de jun. de 2023 · A jury found Cheryl Lucero guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced her to 50 years to life in prison. She’ll be eligible for parole in 2034 when she’s 65 years old. "Let her bathe in her mistakes,” Kay Roberts, Rick’s niece, told Snapped .
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- I. Prosecution's Case in Chief
- II. Defense Case
- III. Prosecution's Rebuttal Case
- I. Trial Court's Denial of Lucero's Challenges For Cause
- II. Admission of Roberts's Hearsay Statements
- III. Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- IV. Cumulative Error
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Tuolumne County. James A. Boscoe, Judge. Han N. Tran, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Xavier Becerra, Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Louis M. Vasquez, Lewis A. Martinez, and Sa...
Cheryl Lynn Lucero was convicted of first degree murder with a firearm enhancement. She appeals the trial court's denial, during the jury selection proceeding, of several of her for-cause challenges to prospective jurors. She also challenges the trial court's admission of a number of hearsay statements made by the decedent victim. Finally, she rais...
A complaint (later deemed an information) filed in the Tuolumne County Superior Court charged Lucero with the murder of Rick Roberts and alleged various firearm enhancements in connection with the murder count. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 12022.5, subd. (a)(1), 12022.53, subds. (b), (c), (d).) A jury found Lucero guilty of first degree murder (d...
A. Testimony of Roberts's Wife , Teddi Roberts Teddi Roberts was Roberts's wife of over 23 years. They had a 10-year-old son, who went by Jhonathen, his middle name, which was spelled atypically. Teddi suspected that Roberts had engaged in multiple extramarital affairs over the last several years before he was killed. Consequently, their marriage w...
A. Lucero's Testimony Lucero testified on her own behalf. She met Roberts in early 2010, when he would come to eat "two to three times a week" at Panda Express in Modesto, where she was a manager. Roberts told Lucero he was separated. Lucero and Roberts flirted and exchanged numbers and eventually, beginning the same year, had a romantic and sexual...
A. Testimony of Eric Guin , Owner of Tattoo Shop in Sonora Eric Guin owned a tattoo shop on South Washington Street in Sonora. Towards "the middle of 2014" (Guin did not remember the timeframe with certainty), a woman who had a tattoo of a "red derby car" with a "U2" symbol came to his shop for a consultation. The derby car tattoo was previously "d...
Lucero argues that, during jury selection, the trial court improperly denied her challenges to three prospective jurors for cause (Prospective Juror Nos. 344526, 348834, and 350328), and, furthermore, improperly restricted voir dire of one of these prospective jurors, Prospective Juror No. 348834. Lucero also argues: "To the extent this issue was n...
The prosecution made an in limine motion to admit, under People v. Riccardi (2012) 54 Cal.4th 758, 814-825 (Riccardi) and Evidence Code section 1250, Roberts's out-of-court statements to Sergeant Roberts and, separately, to Erick Burkey (Roberts's nephew), to show Roberts's state of mind (i.e., a negative view and rejection of Lucero) and, in turn,...
Lucero argues trial counsel was ineffective for failing to renew a pretrial request to admit evidence showing that Lucero was aware that Roberts, at the time of his death, was having an extramarital affair with a female volunteer in the Sonora Police Department's Explorer program (the court had reserved its ruling when the request was initially mad...
Lucero argues that reversal of the judgment is required because of the cumulative effect of errors by the trial court and ineffective assistance by counsel. (See People v. Hill (1998) 17 Cal.4th 800, 844 ["[A] series of trial errors, though independently harmless, may in some circumstances rise by accretion to the level of reversible and prejudicia...
4 de sept. de 2015 · Friday, after two-days of deliberation, the jury found 46-year-old Cheryl Lynn Lucero of Twain Harte guilty of shooting 49-year-old Rick Roberts to death on February 16, 2014 in his auto body...
30 de oct. de 2015 · Cheryl Lucero, 46, was sentenced in Tuolumne Superior Court to 50 years to life in prison, according to a Sonora Police Department news release issued this week. A jury convicted Lucero on...
13 de jun. de 2022 · Defendant Cheryl Lynn Lucero was convicted of first degree murder with a firearm enhancement. Defendant argues that the trial court failed to exercise its discretion to strike the 25-year-to-life firearm enhancement and impose a lesser enhancement.
20 de jun. de 2014 · SONORA, Calif. (KCRA) — A 45-year-old woman has been arrested after admitting to her involvement in the shooting death of a Northern California businessman and police volunteer, Sonora police said....
