People v. Galloway CA4/2
Opinion
Opinion
FACTS AND PROCEDURE
On January 11, 2013, defendant had recently been released on parole after serving
a 19-year, second-strike prison term. At about 11:00 a.m., defendant knocked and jiggled
the handle on the door of the upstairs apartment that his very close friend, Jonathan
Bradford, shared with Bradford’s girlfriend, Aunjana Williams. Williams looked through
the peep-hole in the door and saw defendant walking down the stairs. She asked him
what he wanted and defendant asked where Bradford was. Williams told defendant that
Bradford was at work and that she was about to leave for work.
When Williams returned home from work around 8:00 that night, she found that
her apartment had been burglarized and “trashed”, a window was broken, and a number
of items were missing, including jewelry and electronics. Many of the stolen items were
found in defendant’s hotel room and inside his girlfriend’s car.
On March 14, 2013, the People filed an amended information charging defendant
with first degree burglary (§ 459) and alleging that he had two prior strike convictions
(§§ 1170.12, subds. (a)-(d) and 667, subd. (b)-(i)) for robbery in 1995 (§ 212.5) and 1990