Boukes

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Defendant, a member of the white supremacist COORS Family Skins gang,

(COORS), took his friend, victim 1, “who was also a member of the gang or at least a

‘hang-around,’ to an isolated area of Hemet and shot and killed him over a $550 drug

debt owed to the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.” 3 When victim 1’s girlfriend,

By order dated December 23, 2021, we granted defendant’s request that we take judicial notice of our record in Boukes, supra, E072973, from defendant’s appeal of the original judgment. (Evid. Code, §§ 452, subd. (d), 459; Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(b)(1).)

3Victim 1 also had “white supremacist” tattoos, such as “swastikas” and a tattoo of “Adolph Hitler.” (Boukes, supra, E072973.)

3 victim 2, 4 tried to get out of the car to help victim 1, “defendant threatened her with a

gun, told her to get back in the car, and kept her from leaving.” (Boukes, supra. at p. 2.)

Prior to the killing, defendant approached another drug user and said he was there

to “tax” him every week on behalf of the Aryan Brotherhood. Defendant demanded

$125, but the drug user gave him nothing. In a second incident, defendant went to…