People v. Machuca CA2/5

facts of the crimes by drawing substantially on our Supreme Court’s published opinion resolving codefendant John Lewis’s appeal. (People v. Lewis (2008) 43 Cal.4th 415.) “In July and August 1991, [John Lewis] was living in apartment E of the Woodside Village Apartments in West Covina with codefendants Huber ([John Lewis’s] girlfriend), [defendant] ([John Lewis’s] half sister), and Hubbard ([defendant’s] boyfriend).” (People v. Lewis, supra, 43 Cal.4th at 432.) At “[a]bout 9:30 p.m. on August 18, 1991, Willie Sams drove his car to . . . Security Pacific Bank . . . . From a gas station across the street, [John Lewis] saw Sams drive up to the drive-through ATM. [John Lewis] and codefendant Hubbard approached Sams’s car and got in. Pointing [a] Ruger handgun at Sams, [John Lewis] forced him to withdraw $200 from that ATM and then to drive to another Security Pacific Bank and withdraw another $600. “[John Lewis] drove Sams to Edgewood Middle School . . . . [John Lewis] and Hubbard forced Sams to get into the dumpster near the baseball field. [John Lewis] and Hubbard each fired several shots at Sams, killing him. [John Lewis] later removed the radio from Sams’s car, attempted to wipe…