People v. Chavez-Estrella CA1/4

BACKGROUND

The Carjacking After cleaning a Berkeley storage facility with her son on the afternoon of July 23, 2018, Holguin entered and started her 2003 gray Saab, and exited the car to await her son. A man— later identified as Chavez-Estrella—approached Holguin, said “[e]xcuse me,” pushed her left shoulder and “threw [her] down” on the sidewalk. Holguin suffered pain but did not require surgery and was taking pain medication more than one year later. The man got into the driver’s side of the car and began to drive away, but not before Holguin grabbed her handbag from the passenger’s car seat. The man drove off but stopped to pick up a woman waiting at the corner. Holguin described the driver as having messy, curly light-brown hair and a full light-colored beard and wearing black sweatpants and an orange short-sleeved T-shirt. Police, firemen and an ambulance responded to Holguin’s son’s call for help, but she refused to go to the hospital. The In-field Show-up Identification of Chavez-Estrella Two days later the police called Holguin and advised: the Saab was found; it was at an International Boulevard gas station; and she could retrieve it. At the gas station, the police asked…