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Feb 01, 2021

Capital Case Roundup — Death Penalty Court Decisions the Week of January 25, 2021

NEWS (1/28/21) — California: The California Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and death sentence imposed on Salvadoran national Irving Ramirez for killing a San Leandro police officer in July 2005. Ramirez admitted to having shot the officer but argued that he was heavily intoxicated and lacked the mental state to be guilty of premeditated murder. The court rejected Ramirez’s claim that his intoxication negated the intent to kill required for first-degree murder under California law and…