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Consultations begin in the trial against Palm Desert Teacher/Coach, which is accused of having killed pedestrians

Riverside, California (Kesq) -The considerations of the jury were now underway in the trial of a former football coach of the Palm Desert High School, who was accused of contesting and killing a 64-year-old caregiver while he was under influence.

33-year-old Cameron Francis Curtis from Palm Desert, also from Palm Desert, met Nancy Caldes in 2023. Curtis is charged with a second degree murder.

After three days of statements, the law enforcement and defense on Thursday morning provided final explanations on the river bank of the Hall of Justice. The judge of the Riverside County Superior Court, Bernard Schwartz, sent the jury behind closed doors in the early Thursday afternoon to weigh evidence.

Curtis is recorded in the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta without deposit.

The deputy Page Broughton from the Department of the Sheriff by Riverside County said in the preliminary hearing of the accused in October 2023 that the department received a call on the evening of March 4, 2023 to examine reports on a pedestrian, and the deputy Valdes dead at the intersection of Calliandra Street and Alamo Drive.

Broughton said Curtis was stopped nearby in his Nissan Frontier Pickup. He was arrested without incident.

Valdes was a caretaker for a local senior and had just left to walk the woman's dog when she was hit by crossing the street, according to Broughton. Detectives later found that Curtis for almost three hours in step pizza, two miles from the place where the victim was removed for almost three hours.

According to the investigators, according to the investigators, the defendant drank 91 ounces of beer and two shots of schnapps before demolition. A bartender told the detectives that Curtis was regular and was sitting at the bar for hours at the bar.

The deputy Joshua Kemper said that Curtis, when he came to fatal arrival, was aware of what he had done, and showed “blood -called aqueous eyes, blurred language, (and) strong smell of alcohol that emit from his breath.”

Although the defendant had not driven in the influence of his position as a teacher and athletics trainer in the context of convictions, he had participated in “every 15 minutes” programs that the beginners available for the re-enactment of dui triagia with emergency doctors, arrests, conviction and funeral service for the advantage of the pupils who learned the rules of the street.

The public prosecutor claimed that Curtis maneuvered the traffic during his two miles long journey home to avoid a traffic light and then blew through a stop sign on Calliandra in the east before hit the victim.

The accused is no longer used in the School District of the desert sand. He has not documented any convictions for crimes or offenses in Riverside County.