People v. Novin CA4/3

FACTS

Sometime between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on November 7, 2016, Ava Rosales drove to Novin’s Santa Ana apartment building to catch a ride with him to a party in Irvine. Novin had offered to drive Rosales to the party because he was excited about his new black Lexus two-door coupe. Novin only drove Rosales to the party. At the party, Rosales had a drink before she decided to take a “catnap” in the bedroom because she was tired from work. She was later awakened by Novin, who said he was ready to leave. Rosales asked Novin whether he had been drinking. Novin indicated he had not been drinking. Novin got into the driver’s seat and

1 All undesignated statutory references are to this code.

2 Rosales got into the front passenger seat of the car; no one else was in the car with them. Novin started driving back to his apartment building when “all of a sudden,” he turned on the music “so loud” and “started speeding very fast.” Rosales thought something was “wrong or off” because of his speeding and “the way he was acting towards the music and all acting weird.” She begged him to slow down, multiple times; he “just told [her] to shut up, pretty much.” Rosales asked him why he was…