Garcia

Filed 12/12/24; certified for publication 12/31/24 (order attached)

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THE PEOPLE, D082237

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Super. Ct. No. SCD288314) v.

ANGEL GARCIA et al.,

Defendants and Appellants.

APPEAL from judgments of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Kimberlee A. Lagotta, Judge. Reversed and remanded. Patricia L. Brisbois, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Angel Garcia. Marcia Clark, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Armando Alvarado. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Charles C. Ragland, Assistant Attorney General, Eric A. Swenson and Marvin E. Mizell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. Angel Garcia and Armando Alvarado (together appellants) are members of Logan Red Steps (Logan), a criminal street gang in San Diego. A jury convicted them of murdering Eduardo S. (Pen. Code,1 § 187, subd. (a), count 1) and found true a robbery murder special circumstance (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(17)). It also…