People v. Poynter CA3

BACKGROUND FACTS AND PROCEDURE

A. Responding Officers’ Testimony On September 8, 2022, Sacramento Police Officer Michael Novak got a call from dispatch about a shooting. At the scene, he interviewed a witness, P.B.,3 who was accompanied by the victim, R. Doe. The victim had a fresh wound near her left eyebrow

Undesignated section references are to the Penal Code. Undesignated rule references are to the California Rules of Court. To protect their privacy, we refer to the witnesses by their initials. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.90(a)(1), (b)(10), (11).)

2 that was bleeding. P.B. reported that a man—whom he later identified as defendant in a photographic lineup—walked down a trail with a gun calling for R. Doe. R. Doe was sleeping on a couch; when she woke up, defendant fired the gun at her multiple times. P.B. reported that defendant also shot P.B.’s dog. Sacramento Police Officer Kyle Stedman was separately dispatched to the scene on a call that a female had been shot in the face. He obtained a statement from a witness, A.C. A.C. stated that she saw a man with a handgun fire several times at a woman. The woman started running away; the man kept…