People v. Woodson CA2/2

BACKGROUND

Defendant and codefendants Berlinda Green, Ernest Lamont Williams, and Anthony Boochee were charged by amended information with the 1998 murder of Arlando Bryant (§ 187, subd. (a), count 1) and conspiracy to commit murder (§ 182, subd. (a)(1), count 2). As to count 1, it was alleged the murder was intentional and carried out for financial gain within the meaning of section 190.2, subdivision (a)(1), and it was intentional and committed by means of lying in wait within the meaning of section 190.2, subdivision (a)(15). In both counts, it was alleged the offenses were committed for the benefit of a gang (§ 186.22), and a principal personally used and discharged a firearm causing death (§ 12022.53). In 2016, defendant was tried with Williams and Boochee, but a separate jury was empaneled for defendant. Williams and Boochee were convicted of both first degree murder and conspiracy as charged. All the special allegations were found

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2 true. Defendant was convicted of second degree murder, acquitted of conspiracy, and the special circumstance of lying in wait was found not true. The jury did find true…