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P. v. Cerda CA2/3
Opinion
Opinion
BACKGROUND
Although Cerda and Johnson were tried jointly, they had separate juries. Their appeals have been consolidated. Viewed in accordance with the usual rule of appellate review (People v. Ochoa (1993) 6 Cal.4th 1199, 1206), the evidence established the following. 1. Prosecution evidence. a. The Katrina Place shooting (counts 1-14). On the night of February 10, 2008, a large group of people were attending a party at a house on Katrina Place in Palmdale. Various witnesses, who either resided at the house or had come for the party, testified they heard gunshots and the sound of bullets passing through the house. Ricardo R., who was in the garage at the time, heard gunshots. One shot was fired into the garage, making a hole in a television set. Ricardo went into the house and rushed upstairs to check on his daughter, who was sleeping in the master bedroom with another child. He found two bullet holes in the bathroom of the master bedroom, about three feet away from where the children had been sleeping.
1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise specified. 2 Adrianna R. had come to the party with her friend Gerardo Salazar, a 24-year-old taxi…