People v. Hamilton CA1/1

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL

BACKGROUND

On the afternoon of March 31, 2019, A.P. and her husband won about $2,000 at the Lytton Casino in San Pablo (Lytton casino). Around 5:45 p.m., they left the casino in their car to return home. About an hour later, still on their way back home, they stopped at a Walgreens on Westborough Avenue in South San Francisco. A.P., who was driving, testified that after she parked in the Walgreens parking lot, she and her husband remained inside the car, talking. A Black man with “braided hair,” later identified as James Brisker, opened the driver’s door, pointed a gun at her head, and told her, “Give me all your money.” A.P. glanced into the back seat, where she had left her purse, and saw that it was gone. A.P. got out of her car and saw another man, later identified as Jaymon Matthews, standing behind Brisker. As she was “yelling and crying,” Brisker grabbed her hand, “pulled [her] up[,] and shoved [her]” to the ground. Brisker then approached A.P.’s husband, pointed a gun at him, and demanded his money. A.P.’s husband handed over about $400 in cash that he was carrying. A coworker of A.P.’s happened to be in the Walgreens parking lot at the same…