Michelle Gutierrez, a 36-year-old Santa Ana woman, is heading to state prison for the next 16 years to life after being sentenced on Friday, Aug. 8, for fatally stabbing her husband, Cesar Reyes Zuna, 38-years-old, on his birthday in 2021, as he lay in bed.
Gutierrez was convicted a few months ago, in April, by an Orange County Superior Court jury on a felony charge of second-degree murder.
Jazmine Torres, Gutierrez’s public defender, blamed mental-health issues related to medication Gutierrez had been taking to help deal with seizures for leading her to kill her husband…