Yolo County Superior Court Judge Samuel T. McAdam ruled Carlos Reales Dominguez legally insane at the time of the 2023 Davis stabbings, concluding the criminal trial with an order for a state hospital evaluation following his conviction for two counts of involuntary manslaughter.
A Yolo County jury convicted Carlos Reales Dominguez of two counts of involuntary manslaughter for the 2023 Davis stabbings, simultaneously acquitting him of attempted murder and thereby advancing the proceedings to a sanity phase.
Yolo County Superior Court Judge Samuel T. McAdam instructed the jury to disregard prosecutorial comments regarding Carlos Reales Dominguez’s nationality and background during his retrial. The directive followed the defense’s filing of a California Racial Justice Act petition, which alleged the prosecution improperly emphasized these aspects. Dominguez faces two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in connection with a series of stabbings.
Carlos Reales Dominguez is undergoing retrial on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in connection with the 2023 Davis stabbing incidents, as defense expert witnesses presented testimony asserting he experienced schizophrenia, not cannabis-induced psychosis, at the time of the alleged offenses.
A defense psychiatric expert testified in Yolo County Superior Court that Carlos Dominguez, a former UC Davis student charged in connection with the 2023 Davis stabbings, suffers from schizophrenia and was experiencing florid psychosis at the time of the incidents, thereby rejecting the theory that his condition was attributable to cannabis-induced psychosis.
The felony murder retrial of Carlos Reales Dominguez continued with testimony regarding charges of two felony counts of murder, one felony count of attempted murder, and associated enhancements stemming from a series of April 2023 stabbings in Davis. Proceedings featured testimony from the defendant’s father, a former co-worker who described behavioral changes, and a digital forensics expert who analyzed device data.
Testimony in the retrial of Carlos Reales Dominguez continued Wednesday in Yolo County Superior Court, with prosecutors presenting evidence from a former roommate and a neighboring resident regarding changes in Dominguez’s behavior prior to the 2023 Davis stabbings, alongside digital evidence from an Amazon employee detailing search and purchase records from an associated online account.
Carlos Reales Dominguez, a University of California, Davis student, is undergoing a retrial on two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, a proceeding that follows a previous mistrial due to a hung jury and includes the presentation of DNA evidence reportedly linking him to the Davis Central Park stabbing.
A Davis police sergeant testified in Yolo County Superior Court that surveillance footage utilized to trace Carlos Reales Dominguez on the night of the 2023 Davis stabbings exhibited significant timestamp discrepancies, including one video with a three-hour error, and a three-to-four-minute interval during which the sergeant conceded the suspect’s activities and whereabouts were unconfirmed.
The retrial of Carlos Dominguez, charged in connection with the 2023 Davis stabbing attacks, continued this week in Yolo County Superior Court. Jurors received testimony concerning the victims, the chronological sequence of events, and the defendant’s mental state at the time of the incidents. The proceedings continue to address the central question of whether the accused acted with criminal intent or as a consequence of severe mental illness.
Jury selection commenced Friday in Yolo County Superior Court for the retrial of Carlos Reales Dominguez, the former UC Davis student charged in the 2023 Davis stabbings that resulted in two fatalities and one injury. Proceedings focused on seating jurors in advance of opening statements scheduled for May 26.
Carlos Reales Dominguez, a former UC Davis student, is facing two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for the fatal stabbings of two people and the attempted stabbing of a third, and the case is scheduled for retrial on May 18, 2026.
Judge Samuel McAdam was allowed to continue presiding over the second trial of Carlos Dominguez after a judge ruled that the prosecution failed to establish that McAdam was biased.