People v. Renteria CA2/1

BACKGROUND

Renteria did not include the reporter’s transcripts from his preliminary hearing in the appellate record, although his contention in this appeal is that the trial court erred in relying on these transcripts in denying his resentencing petition at the prima facie stage. On this court’s own motion, we augmented the appellate record with the reporter’s transcripts from the preliminary hearing and minute orders related to the preliminary hearing.2 A. Preliminary Hearing On July 2, 2018, the preliminary hearing commenced to determine whether Renteria and codefendant Jorge Olea would be held to answer on a charge of premeditated attempted murder. The two-day preliminary hearing concluded on July 26, 2018. Angel Vargas, a victim of the alleged attempted murder, testified for the prosecution at the preliminary hearing and was cross-examined by each defendant’s counsel. During Vargas’s testimony, the prosecutor played surveillance video from the gas

2 Our consideration of the preliminary hearing transcripts

is limited. We provide a summary of the evidence presented at the preliminary hearing, but we do not weigh the evidence. We rely on indisputable circumstances about…