People v. Allen CA1/5

I. BACKGROUND

Further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise noted.

1 On August 25, 2012, appellant fought with her neighbor Demetria Spears over some bad marijuana. Later that evening, while in a group helping a friend to move out of her apartment, the two women fought again. Appellant’s husband Larry Alford became involved in the altercation and was beaten by some male friends of Spears. He went back to his apartment and returned with a rifle or shotgun, which he then fired three times. He killed Spears and blinded a man named Dubose in the left eye. Before the shots were fired, appellate either said, “Let it go!” or “Light it off,” or “let the motherfucker go.” When interviewed later by the police, appellant admitted saying something like “get ’em” or “fuck ’em up,” but she didn’t mean for her husband to kill anyone. Appellant was charged with one count of murder and one count of attempted murder, along with allegations she was vicariously armed with a firearm. (§§ 187, subd. (a), 187, subd. (a)/664, 12022, subd. (a)(1).) In 2014, she pled guilty to one count of attempted murder, admitted an arming allegation and received a sentence of ten years.…