People v. Martin CA1/1

BACKGROUND

The Underlying Cases Defendant’s “omnibus” filing referenced three criminal cases:

All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless

otherwise indicated.

1 Case No. 112664 In this case, defendant was convicted in September 1992 of one count of unlawful possession of an assault weapon (former § 12280, subd. (b), now § 30605). The trial court sentenced him to 16 months in state prison.2 Case No. 119751 In this case, the Alameda County District Attorney filed an information alleging one count of felony murder (§ 187). Devin Brewer and further alleging defendant committed great bodily injury and had suffered a prior conviction for possession of an assault weapon. In November 1994, pursuant to a negotiated disposition, the parties stipulated to a factual basis for the plea and defendant entered a no contest plea to one count of voluntary manslaughter (§ 192), a lesser included offense, in exchange for an aggravated 11-year prison term. The two remaining allegations were stricken. Case No. 165401 This case arose out of the killings of Zoelina Taylor and her 17-month- old son. “According to a letter submitted by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office…