Miranda

This case involves a razor-blade-shank attack by “Southside” gang members on a Los Angeles County jail inmate who refused to stab another inmate at the gang’s behest. Humberto Miranda, Felix Vega, and Isaac Rangel appeal from the judgment entered after a jury trial. All were convicted of assault with a deadly weapon (count 1; Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (a)(1)); 1 assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury (count 2; § 245, former subd. (a)(1), now subd. (a)(4)); and battery with serious bodily injury (count 3; § 243, subd. (d)). Codefendant Chris DeLeon was acquitted. As to each appellant, the jury found true great bodily injury allegations (§ 12022.7, subd. (a)) and gang enhancements (§ 186.22, *832 subd. (b)(1)(A) & (Q). As to Miranda, the jury found true an allegation that, in the commission of battery with serious bodily injury, he had personally used a “knife and razor.” (§ 12022, subd. (b)(1).) Vega and Rangel admitted prior felony convictions.

Miranda was sentenced to prison for 17 years, to be served first before serving life sentences in another case. (See § 669.) Vega was sentenced to prison for 11 years four months, to be served consecutively…