People v. Owens CA4/2
Opinion
Opinion
I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND2
A. The Shooting
About 2:00 a.m. on December 19, 2001, Officer Denney of the Desert Hot Springs
Police Department saw a midsize, four-door white car with its parking lights on parked in
front of an apartment complex at Second and Mesquite. In the car were a female driver,
Shalamar Wiley, and a male passenger, codefendant Rayshawn Lamarr Session. Denney
told them it would be a good idea to leave, because they were parked in front of a known
“crack house.” (Owens, supra, E033148.)
1 Further unspecified statutory references are to the Penal Code.
2 On our own motion, we take judicial notice of the nonpublished opinion in People v. Owens et al. (Apr. 12, 2005, E033148) (Owens), from defendant’s appeal from the judgment. (Evid. Code, §§ 452, subd. (d), 459; Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(b)(1).) We repeat our prior opinion’s factual and procedural background.
2 Russell Wilson (the victim) lived in a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment in
the complex at Second and Mesquite with his girlfriend Faye Ransom, her mother
Catherine Daniels, Ransom’s niece Sophia Lindsey, and Ransom’s friend Angela Rippy.