People v. Williams CA2/1

BACKGROUND

On the night of January 31, 2004, siblings Jason and Shulma Ramos were killed, and Jose Alvarado Velasquez and Walter Hernandez were wounded by gunfire. (Unless otherwise specified, all date references pertain to 2004.) At the first trial of defendant and then codefendant Leon Brown, the jury convicted Brown of two counts of special circumstance first degree murder and five other offenses, but could not reach a verdict on any of the six charges against defendant. At defendant’s first retrial, the jury convicted him of all charges and found all enhancement allegations true. We reversed that judgment on appeal for prejudicial evidentiary error. (People v. Williams (Nov. 8, 2010, B213029) [nonpub. opn.].) The Supreme Court denied the Attorney General’s petition for review. Upon remand, the prosecutor refiled the case. Defendant was retried and convicted of all charges, with all enhancement allegations found true. 1. The shooting About 11:00 p.m. on the night of January 31, a group of 12 friends and acquaintances aged 15 to approximately 24 (including the Ramos siblings, Velasquez,

2 Hernandez, Anjanneth Franco, Carla Corrales, Miguel Meza, Cesar Maldonado, and Ruben…