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San Miguel man gets potential life sentence for attempted murder

July 25, 2019

Jim Pinedo

A San Miguel man who was convicted of attempting to murder his girlfriend, despite her refusing to testify against him, received a prison sentence on Wednesday of 14 years plus 25 years to life, according to the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office. [Cal Coast Times]

Judge Jacquelyn Duffy issued Jim Pinedo, 38, the maximum allowable sentence for his crimes. Last November, a jury found Pinedo guilty of attempted murder, assault with a firearm, inflicting corporal injury to an intimate partner, threatening and dissuading a witness and additional felony charges.

On Oct. 2, 2017, Dancene Cordova was shot in the neck, resulting in her being in a 10-day medically induced coma. After she awoke, Cordova initially said Pinedo, who she had a restraining order against, shot her.

However, her story later changed. Cordova later said she had been struggling with methamphetamine addiction in the months leading up to the shooting. On the day of the shooting, Pinedo confronted her after he again caught her using methamphetamine, she said.

An argument ensued, and she grabbed Pinedo’s rifle that he left at home despite being a felon prohibited from possessing firearms. Cordova said she threatened to kill herself with the rifle, and Pinedo tried to take the gun away from her. While they were struggling on the floor over the gun, the rifle went off, striking her in the neck, Cordova said.

Cordova was subpoenaed to testify against her boyfriend, but she refused to answer any questions.

During the trial, Deputy District Attorney Megan Baltierra called an expert witness to describe what is known as the “cycle of domestic violence” and its effect on victims.

“It is a troubling reality that victims of domestic violence are often unable to fully escape the psychological holds of their abusing partner and choose not to cooperate with prosecution,” District Attorney Dan Dow said in a statement following Pinedo’s sentencing.

Dow called Pinedo’s prison sentence a victory for all domestic violence victims.


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Hmm, Dan Dow is not consistent. Ryan Petetit/Wright did the same thing, basically, and got a couple of months when he deserves life also. Now Dow wants to drop the hammer on someone so as to look like he cares about Woman’s rights. I see a documentary about Dan Dow coming.


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“A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.”

Proverbs 12:4


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So, if I get this right: A guy has a girlfriend who does meth and he doesn’t like it, he wishes she’d stop. He catches her doing meth, they get in an argument, she grabs a rifle he owns in order to manipulate/emotionally extort him, and ends up accidentally shooting herself because she acted like an idiot.


There is zero in the story to indicate he had ever physically abused this tweaker girlfriend.


But because he’s a felon …??? Didn’t he pay his debt to society? Why then weren’t his God-given (according to the Founders) 2nd amendment rights restored? Well, anyway, they weren’t … he ignored that arbitrary rule, and HE gets tossed in jail for 14 years to life????


Am I missing something??? WHY is this guy in jail again??????


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