People v. Ross CA3

FACTS AND HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS

In October 2019, the People filed a complaint against defendant alleging he and his codefendants committed murder and that defendant committed involuntary manslaughter of a police officer. (§§ 187, subd. (a), 192, sub. (b).) In March of 2022, the People filed an amended complaint that charged defendant with voluntary manslaughter and possession of cannabis for sale. (§ 192, subd. (a), Health & Saf. Code, § 11359, subd. (d).) Defendant pleaded no contest to manslaughter and possession of cannabis for sale on March 1, 2022. (§ 192, subd. (a); Health & Saf. Code, § 11359, subd. (d).) The factual basis for defendant’s plea stipulated that defendant misled responding sheriff’s deputies and placed them in harm’s way. As a result of his actions, one deputy was shot and killed and a second was shot and injured. As more fully described in the probation report, defendant called the dispatch to report he saw five unknown suspects in his legal marijuana grow and that they were attempting to steal his marijuana. Deputy sheriffs responded and contacted defendant who directed them to the “garden,” and was described as “inappropriately calm.” Despite the…