Orosco

Filed 8/17/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

COURT OF APPEAL, FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION ONE

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

THE PEOPLE, D079723

Plaintiff and Respondent,

v. (Super. Ct. No. FWV21000863)

JESSE OROSCO,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of San Bernardino County, Cara D. Hutson and Corey G. Lee, Judges. Reversed. Steven S. Lubliner, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Charles C. Ragland, Assistant Attorney General, and Melissa A. Mandel, Kathryn A. Kirschbaum, and Joseph C. Anagnos, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent. Appellant Jesse Orosco appeals his conviction for one count of assault on a peace officer by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury. (Pen. Code, § 245, subd. (c).)1 He argues: (1) there is no substantial evidence that the victim was a peace officer; (2) the trial court erroneously denied his request to represent himself under Faretta v. California (1975) 422 U.S. 806 (Faretta); (3) the trial court…