Aguilar

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COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THE PEOPLE, D083172

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v. (Super. Ct. No. SCD283329)

ENRIQUE AGUILAR,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Diego County, Carlos O. Armour, Judge. Reversed and remanded. Jennifer A. Gambale, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Charles C. Ragland, Assistant Attorneys General, Eric A. Swenson, Kathryn Kirschbaum and Marvin E. Mizell, Deputy Attorneys General for Plaintiff and Respondent. Enrique Aguilar was convicted by a jury of multiple offenses based on his involvement in a shootout with San Diego Police Department (SDPD) officers. Before trial began, the People exercised a peremptory challenge to strike a prospective juror who the prosecutor thought was unable to grasp the concept of intent. Aguilar objected on the ground that the People were trying

to exclude Latinas, Latinos, and persons of Hispanic ethnicity from the…