People v. Mitchell

Filed 7/22/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION EIGHT

THE PEOPLE, B308780

Plaintiff and Respondent, Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. A639776 v.

RODERICK WAYNE

MITCHELL,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Tammy Chung Ryu, Judge. Affirmed. Jonathan E. Demson, 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, Assistant Attorney General, Amanda Lopez and J. Michael Lehmann, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. ____________________

Roderick Wayne Mitchell joined his older brother’s gang, which celebrated violent acts done “just for the fun of it.” With his fellow gang members, Mitchell took part in these crimes. Then came this murder. While at a pool hall at 2 o’clock in the morning, Mitchell and his brother decided to rob someone and selected a victim: the driver in a nearby car waiting for food at a drive-through. Along with a third accomplice, Mitchell waited while…