Lytkowski
People v. Lytkowski
Opinion
Opinion
Murphy, J.
I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On September 14, 2021, at about 5:20 a.m., John Morris, Jr., a security guard at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, was sitting in his parked car at the entrance gate to the club when he saw a vehicle arrive “off of Skyline Boulevard into the driveway of the club.” Skyline Boulevard is a highway. Morris saw the vehicle, a burgundy Cadillac Escalade, arrive “very fast . . . with excessive speed . . . tires screeching,” and driving on the wrong side of the road. As the Cadillac approached Morris and nearly collided with his car, it “moved right to the side, hit [a] planter . . . careened off of that planter, and then hit [a] retaining wall . . . behind [the] gate, bounced over to the other side” of the driveway, and hit another retaining wall, before rolling down the driveway. A club security camera recorded the Cadillac crashing into the retaining walls. The Cadillac crashed into a tree. Morris called 911.
2 San Francisco Police Department Officer Nathan Rapolla arrived, and saw the Cadillac that had apparently collided with a tree. Officer Rapolla got out of his patrol car, and saw a man in the Cadillac next to the tree. Officer Rapolla…