People v. Connors CA1/2

BACKGROUND

By information filed on December 26, 2012, defendant and Delosangeles were charged with the murder of Maurice Collins (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a)), with a special circumstance allegation that Delosangeles committed the murder while he was engaged in the commission of a burglary and that defendant was an accomplice in the burglary

1 (id., § 190.2, subd. (a)(17)(G)). It was further alleged that Delosangeles personally and intentionally discharged a firearm and caused great bodily injury and death to Collins (id., §§ 12022.7, subd. (a), 12022.53, subd. (d)) and personally used a firearm (id., § 12022.5, subd. (a)), and that defendant was armed with a firearm (id., § 12022, subd. (a)(1)). Prior to trial, Delosangeles pleaded guilty to second degree murder in exchange for a sentence of 15 years to life with the possibility for parole conditioned upon his truthful testimony at defendant’s trial. Following a jury trial in June and July 2014, defendant was found guilty of first degree murder, with the jury finding true the special circumstance that the murder was committed while defendant was an accomplice in the commission of a burglary. On September 15, 2014, defendant was…