People v. Stevenson CA3

STATEMENT OF FACTS

On August 21, 2016, about 12:20 in the morning, Curtis Castner was outside his house talking on the phone to a friend after taking out the trash. He heard a sound like an

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2 explosion, saw smoke and glass flying everywhere, and a car “doing doughnuts” in front of his driveway. A car came to a stop in his driveway and the car that hit it went around it, stopped, turned left across the street, and came to a stop after hitting his neighbors’ Mustang in their driveway. Around the same time, Dashonda Medina was sitting on a bench in front of her house when she heard a loud crash. She walked out in front of her house and saw a big plume of smoke and a car that had hit a parked car. Castner saw an individual get out of the front passenger’s seat of the car that hit the Mustang. He was big; his head was shaved. He walked around to the driver’s side, opened the door, pulled an individual out, and held him in a kind of a bear hug. This person was a lot smaller, skinnier, and had long hair. At trial, Castner identified the man in the driver’s seat as defendant. The larger man started walking away with…