People v. Castro CA2/3

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

1. The murder and Castro’s plea agreement Castro met Jahmal Frazier in August 2010 and they started dating.2 On October 23, 2010, Frazier—wearing a mask—went into a 7-Eleven store in Bellflower. Roshan Bhandari was working at the store. Frazier showed Bhandari a small black gun and demanded money. Bhandari gave him about $90 from the cash register and safe. Frazier fled. Deputy

References to statutes are to the Penal Code. Effective June 30, 2022, section 1170.95 was renumbered section 1172.6, with no change to the text. (Stats. 2022, ch. 58, § 10.) For convenience, we refer to the former statute number throughout this opinion. We take our statement of facts from the following: (1) Castro’s statement of facts in her opening brief on appeal; (2) the opinion of another panel of this court in Frazier’s appeal from his robbery conviction, which Castro cites in her opening brief, People v. Frazier (July 11, 2012, B236057) [nonpub. opn.] (Frazier); and (3) Castro’s testimony in Frazier’s later trial for murder. We previously granted the Attorney General’s request for judicial notice of that testimony under Evidence Code section 459 and…