People v. Alfaro CA2/1

BACKGROUND

Alfaro has an extensive criminal history comprising 16 strike convictions in 11 separate felony cases between 1984 and 2004 and has been incarcerated for 40 of his 60 years, during which he attempted to escape twice. He was involved in approximately eight fights from 1989 to 2000 while incarcerated and was placed in a single-occupancy cell from 2009 to 2022 for the safety of the prison population. In 2003, Alfaro pleaded no contest to three counts of residential burglary and one each of grand theft and receiving stolen property, and admitted five prior convictions within the meaning of the “Three Strikes” law. The trial court sentenced him to 40 years to life in prison, and we affirmed the conviction. (People v. Alfaro (Dec. 27, 2005, B174698) [nonpub. opn.].) In 2004, Alfaro was removed from prison and transported to Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles County to be prosecuted for

1 Undesignated statutory references will be to the Penal

Code.

2 a residential robbery. A report detailed the facts of the robbery: In 2003, when he was 40 years old, Alfaro broke into the victim’s home and encountered her in a bedroom, where he pushed her face down onto a bed and grabbed…