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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.
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