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Christopher DeCoste

Defense co-counsel in the Magbanua retrial who led the extended cross-examination of cooperating hitman Luis Rivera and drove the alternative-motive theory that Garcia acted on personal obsession.

Appeared Magbanua Retrial
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Defense co-counsel in the Magbanua retrial, DeCoste led the extended cross-examination of cooperating hitman Luis Rivera across two sessions and drove the core alternative-motive theory — that Sigfredo Garcia acted on personal obsession with Magbanua rather than at her direction — while also challenging the prosecution's cell-site, financial, and audio forensic evidence through crosses of Corbitt, Hull, Naber, and McElveen, and preserving several evidentiary and constitutional issues for the record.

Trial Record (28)