People v. Ferrer CA1/2

BACKGROUND

The facts underlying Ferrer’s convictions were related in our unpublished opinion on the appeal. (People v. Ferrer (Oct. 26, 2022, A161355) [nonpub. opn.].) In brief, Ferrer and a codefendant were convicted of

1 murdering Lorenzo Castrejon in retaliation for Castrejon giving his girlfriend a black eye, following Castrejon’s car to a location and shooting at it repeatedly. Ferrer and the codefendant subsequently set fire to the car they had been driving. A few days after the murder, when the police went to a motel to arrest the codefendants, they tried to escape in an SUV which Ferrer drove into parked cars and the police armored vehicle before being apprehended. After a jury trial, Ferrer was convicted of first degree murder (Pen. Code,1 § 187, subd. (a)) (count 1), with findings that he personally discharged a firearm causing death (§ 12022.53, subd. (d)) and personally used a firearm in the commission of a felony (§ 12022.5, subd. (a)); shooting at an occupied motor vehicle (§ 246) (count 2), with the same firearm findings; assault on a peace officer or firefighter (§ 245, subd. (c)) (count 3), possession of a firearm by a felon (§ 29800, subd. (a)) (count 4) and…