Price

BACKGROUND

I. The Trial and Verdict Our opinion in Price I describes in detail the evidence presented against Price at her trial. (Price I, supra, 8 Cal.App.5th at pp. 416-425.) We will summarize it only briefly here. In substance, it showed that in 2009, Price, then 20 years old, along with two friends, Kendra Fells and Teareney Brown, participated in a robbery of 22-year-old Benjamin Merrill during which one of them shot and killed him. Fells, the owner of the gun used in the killing, entered a plea agreement for a 15-year determinate sentence in exchange for testifying against Price. According to her testimony and other evidence at trial, Price and Brown stopped at the house where Fells stayed with her girlfriend in Pittsburg, California, and awakened Fells, who then showed Price a revolver Fells had recently purchased. Price and Brown then left in a car belonging to a friend and drove to San Francisco.

3 Sometime later 2, they returned to Pittsburg with a very intoxicated Benjamin Merrill in tow and again stopped at Fells’s girlfriend Felicia Edosa’s house. Price went inside, sporting an iPhone Fells and her girlfriend had not seen her with before, awakened Fells, asked…