Valencia

Filed 3/10/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

THE PEOPLE, B338672

Plaintiff and Respondent, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. KA117390 v.

ISAIAS DEJESUS VALENCIA,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Mike Camacho, Judge. Affirmed and remanded with directions. George Schraer, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey, Assistant Attorney General, Jonathan J. Kline and Herbert S. Tetef, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________ Isaias Valencia used methamphetamine and cocaine and began driving his pickup. He would not comply with police orders to pull over. Police chased Valencia until he crashed into a parked car. He jumped out, ran to his nearby apartment, and barricaded himself in his bedroom. Thus began an overnight standoff in which the 38-year-old Valencia would shoot one officer to death and seriously wound another. A SWAT team eventually…