TURLOCK, Calif. – A Turlock man was convicted of murder in a stabbing death from two years ago, the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office said Monday. Manuel Junior Maldonado, 32, was convicted of murder and related charges in the 2022 killing of 28-year-old David Gomez Mendoza, of Modesto, by a Stanislaus County Superior Court jury after a three-week trial, authorities said.