People v. Quijano CA2/2

BACKGROUND

In 2005, appellant paid a man to kill her husband, Reynaldo Quijano. That man hired several others to do the job, and one of them shot the husband to death in his car.2 A jury convicted appellant of conspiracy to commit murder (§ 182, subd. (a)(1)) and first degree murder (§ 187, subd. (a)), and found true firearm allegations (§ 12022, subd. (a)(1)) and the special circumstance that the murder was committed for financial gain (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(1)). Appellant was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. We affirmed her conviction on direct appeal. (People v. Quijano, supra, B207955.) In 2022, appellant filed a petition for resentencing under section 1172.6, and the trial court appointed counsel. The People filed an opposition to the petition, and appellant filed a reply. The trial court then set an order to show cause, before staying the case pending our high court’s decision in People v. Curiel (2023) 15 Cal.5th 433. The court then recalled its decision to set an

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

2 These facts are drawn from the unpublished decision in appellant’s direct appeal from her conviction. (People v. Quijano…