WOODLAND, Calif. — Jurors in the Carlos Reales Dominguez retrial heard testimony Wednesday from a California Department of Justice investigator and two Davis police officers who described how evidence was identified, collected and processed during the May 2023 search of the accused’s Hawthorne residence.
Dominguez, a former UC Davis student, is accused of fatally stabbing two men and injuring one woman in April 2023. Following a mistrial declared last June, Dominguez is back in court facing two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.
Deputy District Attorney Matthew De Moura called a special investigator for the California Department of Justice to the stand during the afternoon portion of Wednesday’s trial. The investigator, who led the Hawthorne Evidence Response Team on May 4, described the search through photographs presented by the prosecution…