Silva

I. BACKGROUND

A. The Underlying Crimes This court is well acquainted with the crimes underlying this appeal, having filed four previous opinions in the direct appeal in its various incarnations in docket number A144079.2 At Silva’s request, we have taken judicial notice of the entire appellate record in A144079. Three of our four prior opinions are contained in the clerk’s transcript of Silva’s current appeal. (See fn. 2, ante.)

2People v. Tabron (Nov. 28, 2017, A144079) (nonpub. opn.) is not contained in the resentencing record; the other three opinions are: People v. Tabron (Dec. 7, 2018, A144079) (nonpub. opn.); People v. Tabron (Aug. 26, 2019, A144079) (nonpub. opn.); People v. Tabron (Feb. 11, 2020, A144079) (nonpub. opn.).

2 The two murders occurred during a 3:00 a.m. home-invasion robbery at the Gonzalez house in Oakland in March 2013, undertaken to settle a drug debt owed by Esteban Gonzalez, Jr. (Junior) to Joseph Tabron, one of Silva’s codefendants. Junior lived with his parents and others3 in the Gonzalez house. Tabron, a drug dealer who lived around the corner, masterminded the robbery. Tabron’s uncle, Joseph Castro, a longtime methamphetamine addict who lived with…