People v. Mase CA1/5

I. BACKGROUND

Appellant, who was 27 years old at the time of the offenses in this case, has abused drugs and alcohol since he was a teenager. In 2009, when he was 18, he and three others robbed a man on public transportation by pushing him to the ground and stealing his belongings. When he was arrested a short while later, he was carrying a semiautomatic weapon. Appellant was convicted of second-degree robbery and various weapon

1 possession counts, sentenced to two years in prison, and paroled in July 2011. (Pen. Code, §§ 211, 12280, subd. (b), 12025, subd. (a)(2), 12031, subd. (a)(1).)1 Appellant committed a carjacking in September 2011 and was convicted of that offense in June 2012. (§ 215, subd. (a).) He was released from prison in September 2016. The current offenses were committed September 14, 2018. Sixteen-year-old John Doe got into a physical fight with appellant’s nephew, another high school student. A female student broke up the fight, and Doe’s only injury was a scratched face. The boys went their separate ways. Later, appellant and several other men confronted Doe as he was walking with a friend. They brutally beat him, stepping on his face, punching him, and…