SANTA ANA, Calif.—Two men involved in a 1993 melee that killed a 17-year-old San Clemente boy recently had their murder convictions overturned by an Orange County Superior Court judge based on a new law prohibiting the convictions of defendants not directly involved in a murder.
Rogelio Vasquez Solis, 45, and Saul Penuelas, 46, both had their second-degree murder convictions vacated by Orange County Superior Court Judge Cheri Pham on May 5. Instead, she re-sentenced the pair to 18 years in prison for assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury, said Solis’ attorney, Randy Ladisky.
