People v. Chester CA3

I. BACKGROUND

In the parking lot case, Sacramento County Superior Court case No. 20FE005360, the amended information charged defendant with possession of a firearm by a felon (Pen. Code, § 29800, subd. (a)(1))1, possession of ammunition by a felon (§ 30305, subd. (a)(1)), possession of drug paraphernalia (Health & Saf. Code, § 11364), and possession of methamphetamine (Health & Saf. Code, § 11377, subd. (a)). In the jail case, Sacramento County Superior Court case No. 20FE005376, the information charged defendant with bringing methamphetamine into the jail under section 4573.5 (count one) and possessing methamphetamine in jail under section 4573.6 (count two). The information in the parking lot case and the information in the jail case alleged defendant had a prior strike in 2007 for battery inflicting serious bodily injury. (§ 243, subd. (d).) The preliminary hearings for both cases were held together as the trial court commented the matters were “transactionally somewhat connected.” During the jury trial on the parking lot case, Officer Benton of the Sacramento City Police Department testified that on March 19, 2020, he and his partner had received a report of a person in a…