People v. Washington CA3

I. BACKGROUND

A. The Prosecution’s Case A bank teller testified that, on August 12, 2019, defendant entered the bank and waived a gun in the air. He threw a bag onto the teller’s counter and told her to fill it. She put money from her drawer into the bag. The prosecution played videos from the bank’s surveillance cameras. Another bank employee testified that the man who entered the bank was holding a pistol. He said it was a robbery and instructed everyone to put their hands up. After he obtained cash from two tellers, the man left in a champagne-colored Volkswagen sedan. A police officer testified that he found an unoccupied Volkswagen sedan matching the description he was provided regarding the bank robbery. The keys were in the ignition and the engine was still running. Inside the sedan, the officer found black tube socks that looked like those that were on the suspect’s hands in the surveillance video. The officer ran a records check and learned defendant was the registered owner of the sedan.

2 Boykin v. Alabama (1969) 395 U.S. 238 (Boykin); In re Tahl (1969) 1 Cal.3d 122 (Tahl).

2 A second police officer was dispatched to a residential address where he searched…