People v. Goodwin CA4/1
Opinion
Opinion
Irion, J.
I.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND3
A. SDC243102
Deborah Johnston and her husband lived in the Clairemont area of San Diego. On
August 10, 2012, with her husband out of town, Johnston left her home midmorning to
meet friends for brunch at 11:00 a.m. She locked the doors, but left the windows open
and the ceiling fans on due to the warm weather. She returned home around 1:00 p.m.,
parked her car in the attached garage and entered the residence in the kitchen-dining
room area.
We recite the facts and inferences from facts in a light most favorable to the judgments. (People v. Ochoa (1993) 6 Cal.4th 1199, 1206.)
3 After setting her purse down on a counter, Johnston heard a noise from the back of
the house that frightened her; her husband was out of town, and nobody should have been
in the house. Johnston began calling out, " 'Is somebody here? Is somebody back
there?' " and started down a hallway that led to the bedrooms. As Johnston approached
the end of the hallway, a man — whom Johnston later identified as Goodwin — came out
of the back bedroom, charging toward her. Johnston reacted by shrieking and screaming
that he should " 'Get out of…