People v. Sanchez CA1/1

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL

BACKGROUND

A. Background At the time of the murder on November 26, 2015, Sanchez lived with his older brother, Victor, and a few roommates in Victor’s house in North Richmond (the house).3 Victor and his girlfriend, with whom he had two young children, used the master bedroom upstairs, and Sanchez slept in the living room. Sanchez and Victor were members of VFL (Varrio Frontera Locos), a North Richmond subset of the Sureño street gang. L.P., a friend of the brothers’ who was almost 19 years old, often spent the night at the house

All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless

otherwise noted. 2Sanchez argues in a related petition for a writ of habeas corpus that he received ineffective assistance of counsel because his trial counsel failed to seek redaction of L.P.’s interviews with police or a limiting instruction about them and failed to object to the prosecutor’s alleged vouching for L.P. By separate order, we deny Sanchez’s habeas petition. (In re Guillermo Garcia Sanchez, A163470.) 3 Because Sanchez and his brother have the same last name, we refer to Victor by his first name. No disrespect is intended.

2 and also slept in…