RMPBS Retro: First Degree Murder Trial

The charges in this case arose out of several events that occurred on Thanksgiving Day in 1982. The defendant attended a Thanksgiving dinner party at the apartment of his friends, Hudgens, Botello, and McClean, where they spent the day drinking alcohol and firing Hudgens' rifle at various targets. In the early evening, the defendant and his three friends went to a bar across the street. At the bar