Valle

Facts Appellant is an inmate at the California Men’s Colony. He was previously convicted of kidnapping (§ 209, subds. (a), (b)(1)), conspiracy (§ 182, subd. (a)), first degree attempted murder (§§ 664/187, subd. (a)), first degree robbery (§ 211), carjacking (§ 215, subd. (a)) and dissuading a witness by force or fear. (§ 136, subd. (c).) In December 2022, a corrections officer searched his cell, along with every other cell on the tier where appellant was housed. The officer found fragments of a plastic food tray after unrolling appellant’s mattress. One of the fragments measured about 14 inches long and 1 inch wide and had been sharpened to a point. The officer also found several metal fragments from a stainless steel shower valve cover. Some of these metal pieces had been concealed inside an N95 mask and others were hidden inside a greeting card in appellant’s mail. The officer also found a heavy, folded metal sheet, eight inches by five inches. The corrections officer described the sharpened plastic fragment as a weapon that resembled a spear or a knife. The plastic was “[not] flexible,” and had been “fashioned into a device that can be used for stabbing.” He explained that…