People v. Johnson CA4/1

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

A. Johnson’s Murder Trial Chuckawalla is a low-level prison in California’s prison system. In June 2005, Bullock and Johnson were housed in building C-7 on C yard.

All further undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code unless indicated otherwise.

We derive the factual background primarily from our Bullock opinion, which was included in the record.

2 Johnson was scheduled to be released in about six months, after he was incarcerated for violating a condition of probation. (Bullock, supra,

D055890.)

“Frank Barbarossa, Robert Deffenbaugh and Jack Woller also were

housed in building C–7.[3] Barbarossa was the ‘shot caller’ for white inmates in C yard . . . . As a shot caller, Barbarossa had authority over what happened in C yard among white inmates; he made decisions and issued orders.” (Bullock, supra, D055890.) On June 20, 2005, Green was transferred to C Yard. On his arrival, Deffenbaugh and Woller asked Green for his “paperwork,” which included his

commitment offense. “The following day, Deffenbaugh and Woller learned that Green was a child molester[.] Barbarossa authorized a ‘hit’ on Green. Woller and…