People v. Salazar CA4/1

I.

INTRODUCTION

Defendant Alexander Salazar appeals his conviction and sentence after a jury trial.

Salazar was convicted of first degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon or with

force likely to cause great bodily injury, and the jury found true gang enhancement

allegations.

On appeal, Salazar contends that (1) the trial court improperly excluded evidence

about what he said to a witness, which was relayed to police by that witness; (2) the trial

court improperly permitted the prosecutor to impeach one of Salazar's codefendants by

presenting evidence regarding that former codefendant's guilty plea, without a limiting

instruction; (3) the cumulative effect of those errors requires reversal; (4) the court erred

in imposing and staying a 10-year term for the gang enhancement associated with the

murder count; and (5) the abstract of judgment fails to adequately reflect the fact that the

court ordered that victim restitution be paid by all codefendants jointly and severally.

We reject Salazar's claims of error regarding the evidence that the trial court

excluded and admitted, and we therefore also reject Salazar's claim of cumulative error.

The…