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(CNS) Posted Tuesday December 14, 2010 –3:18pm
A state appeals court panel today rejected an appeal from a North Hollywood man convicted of fatally shooting his wife nearly four years ago.
The three-justice panel from California's 2nd District Court of Appeal upheld Benjamin Burgos' conviction for second-degree murder for the January 2007 killing of his spouse, who was shot four times.
Burgos called a police emergency number shortly after midnight on Jan. 12, 2007, and told the operator, ``I just killed my wife.'
Responding officers arrested Burgos without incident and found his wife Ana's body lying on the couch.
The two had been married for about a decade, had two children and had been involved in a series of arguments, according to the appellate court panel's 10-page ruling.
Burgos -- who had worked first as a mortgage broker and later as a real estate agent -- was sentenced to 40 years to life in state prison.
A compilation of daily news articles from around the United States about deaths (including both people and animals) that appear to occur in the context of a past or present intimate relationship, focusing on 2009-present. (NOTE: this blog is limited to incidents that appear in the media and are captured by our search terms. We recognize this is not an exhaustive portrayal of all deaths resulting from intimate violence.) When is society going to realize intimate violence makes victims of us all?
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