WOODLAND, Calif. — The retrial of former UC Davis student Carlos Dominguez proceeded this week in Yolo County Superior Court, with jurors hearing testimony about the deadly 2023 Davis stabbing attacks while confronting the central question that has defined the case from the outset: whether the accused acted with criminal intent or as a result of severe mental illness.
Dominguez is being retried on charges related to the deaths of David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm, as well as the stabbing of Kimberlee Guillory during a series of attacks that frightened the Davis community in the spring of 2023.
The retrial follows a mistrial last year after jurors acquitted the accused of first-degree murder but were unable to reach unanimous verdicts on manslaughter and attempted murder charges. Prosecutors subsequently elected to retry the unresolved counts…