Edwards

Filed 3/18/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

THE PEOPLE, B309273

Plaintiff and Respondent, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. BA465424 v.

JONATHAN MAURICE

EDWARDS,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Eleanor J. Hunter, Judge. Affirmed.

Miriam K. Billington, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Scott A. Taryle, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Rene Judkiewicz, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________ It does not violate the confrontation clause for a judge to order trial witnesses to wear masks during the current pandemic. The Constitution does not require judges to imperil public health. A jury convicted Jonathan Maurice Edwards of the attempted murder of his cellmate Raul Sanchez Aguayo. (Pen. Code, §§ 664, 187, subd. (a).) The jury found Aguayo suffered great bodily injury. (§ 12022.7,…