People v. Henson CA3

BACKGROUND

In 2017, a jury convicted defendant of attempted theft of a Jeep Cherokee (Pen. Code,1 § 664, Veh. Code, § 10851) in Sacramento County case No. 16FE010015. The trial court suspended defendant’s sentence and placed him on probation for five years

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

2 with various terms and conditions. Also in 2017, a Sacramento County complaint charged defendant with two counts of felony child endangerment (§ 273a, subd. (a)) in case No. 17FE013490. On February 14, 2018, defendant pleaded no contest to one count of child endangerment. The trial court dismissed the remaining count and placed defendant on probation for five years. The attempted vehicle theft case and child endangerment case were subsequently transferred to Yuba County for probation supervision, and the cases were assigned new case numbers.2 On July 16, 2020, a Yuba County complaint charged defendant with murder (§ 187, subd. (a) -- count I), attempted murder (§§ 664, 187, subd. (a) -- count II), and hit and run resulting in death or serious injury (Veh. Code, § 20001, subd. (b)(2) -- count III) in case No. CRF20-01212-01. The complaint further alleged that…