PEOPLE v. ROMERO-ARELLANO

No. A119908.

171 Cal.App.4th 58 (2009)

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. HELIODORO ROMERO-ARELLANO et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

As modified March 4, 2009.

CERTIFIED FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Stevens Condie, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Misael Jimenez-Gutierrez.

David M. Thompson, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Heliodoro Romero-Arellano.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler, Assistant Attorney General, Martin S. Kaye and Christopher W. Grove, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

RICHMAN, J.

For more than 140 years, California jury instructions have referred to the prosecuting authority as "the People." CALJIC used that reference in its instructions, which reference continues today in CALCRIM. Instructed here with CALCRIM instructions, a jury convicted defendants Heliodoro Romero-Arellano and Misael Jimenez-Gutierrez (when referred to collectively, defendants) with possession of methamphetamine for sale...

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