Lewis

BACKGROUND

A. The Conviction and Sentence

In 2022, a jury convicted Lewis of a first degree murder (§ 187, subd. (a)) that

Lewis committed in 2020 by shooting the victim five or six times at close range. (People

v. Lewis (Nov. 30, 2023, E079660) [nonpub. opn.].) “Lewis was identified as the shooter

during the police investigation and at trial by an eyewitness who was standing next to

[the victim] when he was shot.” (Ibid.) The jury found true the allegations that Lewis

personally used a firearm causing death (§ 12022.53, subds. (b)-(d)) and that he suffered

a prior strike conviction (§§ 667, subds. (b)-(i), 1170.12, subds. (a)-(d)).

2 In August 2022, the court sentenced Lewis to 75 years to life in state prison. We

affirmed the judgment. (People v. Lewis, supra, E079660.)

B. Compassionate Release Petition

In June 2023, Dr. Joseph Bick, the Department’s director of Health Care Services,

sent a letter to the court recommending that the court grant Lewis compassionate release

and recall his sentence under section 1172.2. Attached to the letter and also submitted to

the court were various documents, including (1) a May 2023 diagnostic study and

evaluation report…