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INTRODUCTION

On October 28, 2009, a consolidated information was filed in Kern County Superior Court, charging defendants Allen Rivas, Hilario Torres, and Joe Coronado, Jr., with attempted premeditated murder (Pen. Code,1 §§ 187, subd. (a), 189, 664; count 1), assault with a firearm (§ 245, subd. (a)(2); count 2), being a felon in possession of a firearm (former § 12021, subd. (a)(1); count 3), and active participation in a criminal street gang (§ 186.22, subd. (a); count 5). Coronado was also charged with being a felon in possession of ammunition (former § 12316, subd. (b)(1); count 4).2 As to count 1, it was alleged Coronado personally and intentionally discharged a firearm, proximately causing great bodily injury or death (§ 12022.53, subd. (d)), and, as to Rivas and Torres, that a principal in the commission of the offense so acted (id., subds. (d) & (e)(1)). As to count 2, Coronado was alleged to have personally inflicted great bodily injury (§ 12022.7). It was further alleged, as to counts 1 through 4, that defendant(s) charged therein committed the crime for the benefit of or in association with a criminal street

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