People v. White CA3

BACKGROUND

“Maintenance workers found a body in a park restroom. The victim had died of multiple stab wounds. (People v. Campaz (Apr. 27, 2010, C056880 & C058484) [nonpub. opn.] (Campaz).)2 “Codefendant Robert[] Moreno Montoya testified it was defendant’s idea to kill the victim. According to Montoya, defendant said to Montoya and codefendant Carlos Tomas Campaz, Jr., that the victim raped his sister, so the victim ‘ “had to go.” ’ Defendant ‘brainstormed various scenarios but settled on luring the victim to the park on the pretext that someone wanted to buy drugs from the victim.’ Defendant showed Montoya and Campaz two knives he was carrying. (Campaz, supra, C056880 &

C058484.)

“After doing drugs with the victim, Montoya drove the victim to the park in defendant’s pickup truck. At the park they met up with defendant and Campaz. They all went into the public restroom to smoke methamphetamine where, according to Montoya, defendant struck the victim in the face and stabbed him in the chest. Campaz punched the victim in the stomach. Defendant pushed the victim into Montoya, who stabbed the victim in the stomach with a sheath knife. The victim fell to the ground. Defendant…