PEOPLE v. LOPEZ

No. F053389.

168 Cal.App.4th 801 (2008)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. VICTOR LOPEZ et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

CERTIFIED FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. M. Weisman, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Victor Lopez.

Susan D. Shors, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Antonio Barajas.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Assistant Attorney General, Louis M. Vasquez, Brian Alvarez and William K. Kim, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

GOMES, J.

On the evening of August 24, 2003, a car carrying two Sureños criminal street gang members—Victor Lopez, the driver, and Antonio Barajas, the passenger—stopped inside a gang-infested alley in a high-crime Modesto neighborhood. Eric Adorno, standing next to a van with a red bandanna on the steering column and wearing a red jersey, blue jeans, and red and white shoes, walked up to the car. A bullet fired from...

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