People v. Williams CA4/1

STATEMENT OF FACTS

We include the facts of the offense as they were stated in our previous

opinion in this case.3 (People v. Williams, supra, D054769.) “On January 24, 2007, Williams, [A.] Brown, [K.] Johnson, [T.] Morris, and [G.] Harper gathered with other members and associates of the O’Farrell Park gang at an apartment on 63rd Street in San Diego.

All further statutory references are to the Penal Code.

At respondent’s request, we granted judicial notice of our records in case No. D054769.

We do so in nearly verbatim fashion except to sometimes use last names and/or initials in naming third parties involved in the subject offenses to protect privacy as much as possible. 2 “Williams, called “Big Homey” by Harper, was a shot-caller; he had the highest status among members of the O’Farrell Park gang. Brown was also a senior member of the gang. Younger members such as Harper, Jones, and Johnson were called the O’Farrell Park Banksters and were lower in the hierarchy. Morris had been documented as a member of the Skyline criminal street gang, which was much larger than the O’Farrell Park gang, but he frequented the O’Farrell Park gang territory. The O’Farrell…