People v. Jackson

Filed 4/17/25 (unmodified opn. attached)

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FIRST APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION TWO

THE PEOPLE,

A164679

Plaintiff and Respondent, v. (Contra Costa County Super. Ct. No. 59007014)

MAURICE A. JACKSON,

Defendant and Appellant. ORDER MODIFYING OPINION AND

DENYING REHEARING

[NO CHANGE IN THE JUDGMENT]

BY THE COURT:

It is ordered that the opinion filed herein on March 28, 2025, be modified as follows:

On page 3, the first two paragraphs of Background I. A. Procedural History, are deleted and the following two paragraphs are inserted in their place: In 1991, defendant and appellant Maurice Jackson was tried for and convicted of the first degree murders of three victims, Johnny Castaneda, Timothy Treas and Claudia Blackmon (Counts 1-3). About seven months after Jackson was convicted of these murders, the separate trial of Fred Amos and Donald Boston, who were alleged to have committed those murders along with Jackson, commenced, and they were convicted in March 1992. In addition to the three murders, Jackson’s jury also convicted him of two…