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THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. AARON DOMINGUEZ ENRIQUEZ, Defendant and Appellant.
Michael S. Mink, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.
Aaron Dominguez Enriquez (Enriquez) entered a plea of nolo contendere to a charge of murder (Pen. Code, ? 187) and admitted the use of a deadly weapon in the commission of the offense.
On appeal he contends that the trial court erred in denying his motions to suppress evidence and his motion for change of venue. We have determined that these contentions are without merit and therefore we affirm the judgment.
On March 6, 1979, Enriquez and Jeffrey Peralta committed a robbery at a pharmacy in Oxnard, during which Peralta killed Ronald Buck, Jr.
Nishihara was assisting Peralta into the police car when a man claiming to be Peralta's brother said something in Spanish. Peralta turned his head toward him and said, "That's all right. I shot that vato ['guy'] at the pharmacy in the back of the head."
Nishihara obtained a recording device and after advising Peralta of his rights, recorded a conversation between himself, Fryar, and Peralta in a holding cell. However, during the entire conversation, Nishihara was of the opinion that the suspect was very intoxicated and at times doubted that Peralta could understand the situation.
Elliott heard by radio dispatch that Peralta was in custody and went to the station. He also recorded a conversation with the suspect, but determined that Peralta was too intoxicated to be interviewed.
Approximately seven and one-half hours later, on March 8, Elliott and Nishihara concluded a third interview with Peralta. Peralta had been given the food he requested and was sleeping. When initially awakened, he appeared groggy. As the interview progressed, he appeared more alert and answered questions more concisely. When Elliott advised him of his rights, both officers thought he was completely alert, aware of the situation, and responding intelligently to questions.
Peralta gave the officers information about the robbery which was consistent with previous statements from the eyewitnesses. Peralta discussed the kind and amount of drugs taken and mispronounced valium as "volumes," in the same way that the eyewitnesses had described one of the robbers as mispronouncing it. He said that Enriquez had stood by the pharmacy door with a knife, which corresponded with the eyewitnesses' description of the robbery.
Peralta also related that Enriquez had stolen an automobile belonging to Anthony Martinez, Peralta's cousin. Martinez had reported the theft of his vehicle from in front of Peralta's residence during the night of March 6 to the police the next morning, but named no suspect.
After the third interview with Peralta, Elliott added to the stolen vehicle teletype system a homicide warrant naming Enriquez in conjunction with the previously entered warrant on Martinez' automobile.
From a long and complicated procedural history, the following matters are relevant on this appeal. Enriquez entered a plea of not guilty, and moved, inter alia, to suppress physical evidence and various statements he made while in custody. The trial court denied these motions and found that Peralta's third statement was not involuntary and that the fruits thereof were admissible. The fruits included Enriquez' arrest, physical evidence and statements resulting from the arrest.
He eventually entered into a felony disposition agreement with the prosecution, withdrew his plea of not guilty, and pled nolo contendere to the murder charge.
1. [1a] Enriquez' Motions to Suppress Were Properly Denied.
Enriquez' contention that the trial court's denial of his Penal Code section 1538.5 motion to suppress evidence constituted error is without merit.
 As for warrantless arrests in general, the prosecution bears the burden of proving that the arresting officer, here Detective Elliott, knew facts which "'would lead a man of ordinary care and prudence to believe and conscientiously entertain an honest and strong suspicion that the person is guilty of a crime.'" (People v. Harris (1975) 15 Cal.3d 384, 389 [124 Cal.Rptr. 536, 540 P.2d 632].) [1c] The facts and circumstances available to Elliott at the time he entered the homicide want for Enriquez comport with this standard. (People v. Fein (1971) 4 Cal.3d 747, 752 [94 Cal.Rptr. 607, 484 P.2d 583]; People v. Hutchins (1979) 100 Cal.App.3d 406, 412 [161 Cal.Rptr. 48].) The information was entered into the vehicle teletype system after Peralta's third statement.
2.  Enriquez Does Not Have Standing to Raise Alleged Violations of Peralta's Constitutional Rights.
Enriquez relies onPeople v. Varnum (1967) 66 Cal.2d 808 [59 Cal.Rptr. 108, 427 P.2d 772] to support this contention, but such reliance is misplaced. In Varnum the court acknowledged that third parties may object to statements obtained by coercive police tactics. This acknowledgment however was an exception to the general holding which denied standing where the objection was based on violation of another's Fifth or Sixth Amendment rights as protected under Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436 [16 L.Ed.2d 694, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 10 A.L.R.3d 974] orEscobedo v. Illinois (1964) 378 U.S. 478 [12 L.Ed.2d 977, 84 S.Ct. 1758].
3. [3a] The Law of the Case Applies to Enriquez' Contention Concerning the Denial of His Motion for a Change of Venue.
[7b] In the current appeal, Enriquez offers no new facts or case law which could alter the basis of a reviewing court's determination of this matter. fn. 6 The proviso concerning renewing the motion, if it became impossible [132 Cal.App.3d 795] on voir dire to select a panel of unbiased jurors, does not affect our consideration, because Enriquez pled nolo contendere shortly after Enriquez was filed. fn. 7 He therefore never attempted to select a panel of jurors.
Lui, J., and Danielson, J., concurred.
?FN 3. People v. Porter (1966) 244 Cal.App.2d 78 [52 Cal.Rptr. 862]; People v. Amos (1960) 181 Cal.App.2d 506 [5 Cal.Rptr. 451].
?FN 4. See also People v. Condley (1977) 69 Cal.App.3d 999, 1004-1005, 1015 [138 Cal.Rptr. 15] [coercion].
?FN 5. Enriquez also seeks to suppress evidence seized in Peralta's house under a search warrant. The warrant was based in part on information from Peralta's statements to the police and Enriquez claims that the warrant was therefore the fruit of an involuntary confession. For the reasons stated previously, he likewise lacks standing to raise this issue.
In both cases, defendants were charged with capital murder. The court in Martinez found this to be a "primary consideration" but refused to adopt a new rule or a presumption favoring defendants in capital cases. (Martinez v. Superior Court, supra, 29 Cal.3d at pp. 582-584.) Martinez thus did not modify existing law.
We therefore conclude that neither the factual pattern nor the legal principles in Martinez compel us to reexamine de novo Enriquez' request for a change of venue.
?FN 7. Enriquez v. Superior Court, supra, was filed January 26, 1981. Enriquez entered his plea of nolo contendere on March 5, 1981.

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