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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION TWO

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent, E084609

v. (Super.Ct.No. INF2201751)

CINDY GICELA PARRA HERNANDEZ, OPINION

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. James S. Hawkins, Judge.

Affirmed.

James M. Crawford, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and

Appellant.

Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney

General, Charles C. Ragland, Assistant Attorney General, Cobi Furdek, Daniel J. Hilton

and Steve Oetting, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

A jury convicted Cindy Gicela Parra Hernandez of committing the willful,

deliberate, and premeditated murder of her husband. (Pen. Code, §§ 187, subd. (a), 189,

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subd. (a); unlabeled statutory references are to this code.) On appeal, Hernandez

challenges the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the premeditation and deliberation

findings. We affirm.1

BACKGROUND

Hernandez admitted to law enforcement that early in the morning on August 7,

2022, she shot and killed her husband, Francisco Guevara Lopez.

I. The marital relationship

Hernandez and Lopez married in 2015. In August 2022, the couple lived together

with Hernandez’s 14-year-old son, Ramon C. About one week before Lopez died,

Hernandez’s adult daughter overheard an argument between Lopez and Hernandez in

which they agreed to divorce.

Lopez spoke with his mother every day. Lopez and Hernandez would frequently

fight when they visited Lopez’s mother. Lopez’s mother twice heard Hernandez threaten

Lopez. Hernandez had recently told Lopez that she “would rather see [Lopez] dead than

with another woman.”

II. The extramarital relationship

Lopez became romantically involved with Barbra J. in September 2021. Lopez

and Barbra spent time together every day at Barbra’s house.

In October 2021, Hernandez learned of Lopez’s affair. After that, Lopez left home

and started spending the night at Barbra’s house or at his workplace. Lopez told Barbra

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In a separate order, we summarily deny Hernandez’s petition for writ of habeas
corpus.

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that he stayed overnight at work on nights when he believed that Hernandez or her family

members were following or watching him. Hernandez and her family members would

sometimes park at his workplace and watch him all day. After Lopez left his home in

October, Barbra said that he started carrying around $20,000 cash in his pocket.

On Valentine’s Day (or possibly the previous day) in 2022, Lopez and Barbra

went out to dinner. Lopez went home afterward. He later returned to Barbra’s house

crying and upset, and he told Barbra, “‘I have to leave [Hernandez], or she will kill me.’”

Lopez had new injuries to his face, back, chest, knee, both legs, ribcage, elbow, and arms.

Barbra described the injuries as “severe[].” Lopez’s face and both legs were bleeding.

Barbra wanted Lopez to go to the hospital because she believed that he needed stitches.

Lopez and Hernandez exchanged a series of text messages about the incident.

Lopez sent Hernandez numerous photographs and told her that she “‘went too far’” with

“‘what [she] did to [him] with the fucking car.’” Lopez texted: “‘My whole fucking

body hurts. All the cuts and yet it hurts me more that you did it and didn’t give a shit

whether you run me over with a car, screwing up my back and my elbow bone.’” He

added: “‘To get to those fucking outbursts and extremes, you’ve gone too fucking far. I

never thought you were capable of so much and now I realize that you are….’”

Hernandez repeatedly apologized, expressed her love for Lopez, and asked Lopez to

forgive her and to return home.

Lopez moved in with Barbra for about one month starting in April 2022. After he

moved out in May, they continued to see each other every day. Barbra last saw Lopez

the day before he died. They were making plans to see each other more frequently.

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III. The events preceding the shooting

Lopez, Hernandez, and Ramon were all at home on August 6-7, 2022. According

to Ramon, Lopez and Hernandez argued on August 6 from sometime in the afternoon

through midnight, when Ramon went to sleep.

Before Ramon fell asleep, he last saw Hernandez and Lopez together in the

backyard. Lopez was drinking alcohol and arguing with Hernandez. He screamed and

punched things in the backyard. Ramon heard what sounded like gunshots and ran

toward the living room, from which he saw Lopez outside with a gun in his left hand and

a bottle in his right hand. Ramon went back to his room and fell asleep.

Ramon was later awakened by Lopez banging on his bedroom window. Lopez

then drove Ramon around to look for Hernandez, who Lopez said had walked away from

him while they were at a convenience store. Lopez and Ramon eventually gave up the

search and returned home, where they found Hernandez. Ramon then went back to sleep

for at least 30 minutes.

Sometime after 2:00 a.m., Lopez’s friend picked up Lopez, and they went to the

convenience store to buy beer but learned it was too late. Lopez and his friend then went

to Lopez’s house, where they picked up a case of beer and drove to the friend’s house.

Hernandez was already parked in the friend’s driveway when Lopez and his friend

arrived around 2:40 a.m. Hernandez yelled at Lopez, and Lopez left with Hernandez.

Lopez had a video call with his mother at 2:40 a.m. on August 7, 2022. He

appeared to be outside walking on a street near his home, with Hernandez following him.

Hernandez was visible behind Lopez, and she appeared upset. She was cussing at him,

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telling him, “‘Fuck you, you son of a bitch.’” She also told him, “‘Tell your mother

where you go drinking every day.’” Lopez’s mother told Lopez to call a friend to pick

him up.

IV. The shooting

At 4:00 a.m. on August 7, 2022, Ramon woke up when he heard a single gunshot.

He testified that he heard Hernandez crying and immediately rushed to her room.

Hernandez appeared to have taken just one step into the room. She appeared “very

shocked.” Ramon saw Lopez’s body on the floor, with a gun “right next to his right

hand, as if it had fallen out of his right hand.” Hernandez told him that “she was turned

around when she heard the bang.”

After Ramon rushed into the room, Hernandez called 911. Hernandez told the

dispatcher that she had weapons and fought with her husband, who “took the gun away

from [her] hand and he shot himself on the forehead.” Hernandez told the dispatcher that

the gun was in Lopez’s hand, and she did not feel comfortable removing it.

The dispatcher asked Hernandez why she had been armed, and Hernandez

responded: “I have a gun, I have had problems with him since October. He cheated on

me and we’ve had problems, he left my house, returned, we’ve had arguments one after

another, one after another, and right now he threatened me that he was going to kill

himself because I followed him to the ranch with his friend because he goes there every

day and right now he came to me, why? Because I went for him. He threatened me that

he was going to kill himself. I never, ever, never, never ever thought that he would pull

it.”

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The 911 dispatcher transferred the call to the fire department. Hernandez

reiterated that her husband shot himself in the head after fighting with her.

V. The investigation

Sheriff’s deputies arrived at Hernandez’s house while she was on the phone with

the fire department. Lopez’s dead body was on the floor in the bedroom, with an

apparent gunshot wound to his forehead. The body was near a boxspring and mattress

that were on the floor. Deputies found $14,130 in cash in Lopez’s possession.

There was a nine-millimeter Smith and Wesson handgun under Lopez’s right

hand. The parties stipulated that the gun was registered to Hernandez. Lopez’s mother

testified that Lopez was left-handed.

The deputies saw two shell casings: one on the ground near Lopez’s right shin

and one on top of the bed. Both casings were from a Luger nine-millimeter. Law

enforcement found a bullet embedded in the drywall just above the bedroom closet.

There was a small speck of blood or human flesh near the bullet hole. Law enforcement

also found another possible strike mark near the bedroom door frame.

An expert on bloodstain pattern interpretation analyzed the blood spatter on the

comforter and opined that Lopez was not standing when he was shot. The expert opined

that it was “more likely that he was kneeled or in a seated position.” Lopez could not

have been seated on the bed, because there was no void pattern in the blood on the bed.

Lopez could have been seated on the floor. The tank top that Hernandez was wearing

had “really fine-impact spatter.” In order to have such stains, the tank top “had to have

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been very close to the point of origin.” The expert concluded that the shirt would have

been “[c]onservatively 5 feet” from the point of impact.

VI. The autopsy

A forensic pathologist conducted an autopsy of Lopez’s body. Lopez was five feet

10 inches tall. He died from a single gunshot to the center of his forehead. There was no

soot or stippling around the entry wound. The pathologist opined on that basis that Lopez

did not commit suicide and that the gun was fired from at least two feet away. The bullet

exited through the back of Lopez’s skull. The pathologist examined Lopez’s internal

head injuries and concluded that the bullet’s path through Lopez’s brain was “a little bit

to the right and a little bit downward.”

The parties stipulated that blood drawn from Lopez’s femoral artery on August 7,

2022, had an ethyl alcohol content of 0.123 percent and some amount of

methamphetamine; those results did not affect the pathologist’s conclusion concerning

Lopez’s cause of death. Drug screening of the vitreous fluid of Lopez’s eyeball revealed

a higher ethyl alcohol content level, which the pathologist explained meant that at some

point before Lopez died his blood alcohol level had reached the higher level.

VII. Law enforcement interview of Hernandez

Homicide investigators with the sheriff’s department interviewed Hernandez at the

sheriff’s station. The interview was conducted in Spanish. An English translation of the

interview was admitted into evidence.

Hernandez described the strife in the couple’s relationship, which she said began

in October 2021 when she discovered that Lopez had sent Barbra a photograph of his

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penis. Hernandez said that she loved Lopez “a lot.” She said that she kicked him out of

the house in October 2021, but he returned two months later. He moved out again in

February 2022 because she hit him with a car, but he returned in May 2022. Hernandez

explained that in the February incident, Lopez stood in front of her car and refused to

move, so she accelerated and struck him with the car. She had expected him to move out

of the way.

As to the shooting, Hernandez initially told the investigators that Lopez shot

himself, but she did not know exactly what had happened. She said that she was seated

on the bed while the couple argued, and she then felt blood splatter on her.

Detectives told Hernandez that the gunshot wound to Lopez’s forehead was

inconsistent with suicide. A detective also explained that Lopez would not have fallen to

the ground holding the gun if he had committed suicide. The detectives further informed

Hernandez that law enforcement found two shell casings in the bedroom, which meant

that there had been two gunshots.

Hernandez initially insisted that she heard only one gunshot in the bedroom and

that the single gunshot prompted her to turn around. But she subsequently revised her

description of what happened, admitting that Lopez “couldn’t have shot himself” and

“nobody else did it.” Hernandez said that she and Lopez were arguing in the bedroom.

Earlier that night, he had called his mother and told her that the relationship with

Hernandez “wasn’t going to work anymore.” When they started arguing, Lopez grabbed

about $14,000 in cash, which amounted to half of the couple’s savings. He took the

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money because he had decided to leave Hernandez. According to Hernandez, every time

they fought, Lopez expressed concern about his half of the savings.

Hernandez claimed that she was seated on the bed when she was arguing with

Lopez. He then made her stand up in order to challenge her. She was holding a gun, and

he was standing right in front of her. Lopez grabbed the hand in which Hernandez held

the gun, pointed the gun toward himself, and told Hernandez, “‘If you have the balls,

pull.’” Hernandez was “[a]lready mad” and pulled the trigger, causing Lopez to fall

immediately.

Hernandez said that she fired the gun “[o]ut of impulse, stupidness, or anger,

because of everything.” She added that she and Lopez “challenged [themselves] too

much. It was too much that we always wanted to be, see who was more—see who was

more. That’s why he challenged me. That’s why all of this happened. Because of a

fucking challenge.” She also said that she “did it because, well, my anger or whatever,

that he challenged me.” Hernandez also said that she shot Lopez because she “stupidly

got blinded” by his challenge. She described the shooting as “a moment of rage, a

moment of anger, in the heat of the moment.”

After Hernandez admitted that she shot Lopez, she continued to insist that she did

not put the gun in his hand after the shooting. But after a detective showed her a

photograph of where the gun was found, she admitted that she “put it there” after she

called 911 so that it would look like Lopez “did it.” She said that there was only one

gunshot, but she also claimed that she could not remember whether there was a second

gunshot. Hernandez denied firing the gun after she killed Lopez and denied that a gun

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had previously been fired inside the house. Although she could not remember exactly

how the second gunshot was fired, Hernandez said: “The only thing I know is that that’s

why he challenged me, because I shot one time. That’s why he challenged me, then.”

Asked by a detective whether she “shot once and then [Lopez] challenged you,”

Hernandez responded, “So that I’d do it with him” and “I think that’s what it was.”

Hernandez agreed with the detective that she would have aimed the first shot in an

upward direction. She explained that she would “never shoot down, never going to

shoot, my son is there … if I know that my son is in the other room” because she knew

that the bullet would “ricochet” if she did that.

A detective told Hernandez that the coroner had found that the bullet travelled

downward through Lopez’s head. The detective was trying to understand how the bullet

could travel in that direction if both Lopez and Hernandez were standing, given that

Hernandez is considerably shorter than Lopez, who was five feet 10 inches tall.

Although Hernandez maintained that she could not recall exactly what happened, she

said: “The explanation that most—that comes to mind, and that no—I don’t know if it

happened like that. But the explanation is that he kneeled down so that I’d do it. That’s

the most logical explanation that I can give you.” She also said that it was possible that

Lopez “bent down before [her] so that [she’d] hit him. Then, that’s what [she] did.”

Hernandez denied that she instructed Lopez to kneel in front of her, and she denied that

she had planned to shoot him.

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Hernandez repeatedly denied that Lopez ever threatened to kill her, and she said

that Lopez “never raised a hand on [her], never hit [her], never nothing…. never - never.”

Hernandez also denied that she ever hit Lopez.

Toward the end of the interview, a detective asked Hernandez for an emergency

contact, and she responded: “My husband. No, not true. If he was still here. Dumb

joke.”

DISCUSSION

Hernandez argues that there is insufficient evidence to support a finding that she

killed Lopez with premeditation and deliberation. We disagree.

“A murder that is premeditated and deliberate is murder of the first degree.”

(People v. Jurado (2006) 38 Cal.4th 72, 118 (Jurado); § 189, subd. (a).) “‘In this

context, “premeditated” means “considered beforehand,” and “deliberate” means “formed

or arrived at or determined upon as a result of careful thought and weighing of

considerations for and against the proposed course of action.”’” (Jurado, at p. 118.)

“[T]he reflection necessary to establish premeditation and deliberation is not measured by

duration of time: ‘Thoughts may follow each other with great rapidity and cold,

calculated judgment may be arrived at quickly, but the express requirement for a

concurrence of deliberation and premeditation excludes from murder of the first degree

those homicides … which are the result of mere unconsidered or rash impulse hastily

executed.’” (People v. Wright (1985) 39 Cal.3d 576, 593 (Wright).)

In determining whether a finding of premeditation and deliberation is adequately

supported, we often consider three kinds of evidence—“preexisting motive, planning

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activity, and manner of killing.” (Jurado, supra, 38 Cal.4th at pp. 118-119; People v.

Anderson (1968) 70 Cal.2d 15, 26-27.) But those guidelines—referred to as the

Anderson factors—“are descriptive and neither normative nor exhaustive,” so “reviewing

courts need not accord them any particular weight.” (People v. Halvorsen (2007) 42

Cal.4th 379, 420; People v. Rivera (2019) 7 Cal.5th 306, 324.)

We review the jury’s findings of premeditation and deliberation for substantial

evidence. (People v. Mendoza (2011) 52 Cal.4th 1056, 1068-1069.) “We review the

entire record to determine whether it discloses reasonable and credible evidence to allow

a rational trier of fact to determine guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.” (People v.

Cardenas (2020) 53 Cal.App.5th 102, 119, fn. 11 (Cardenas).) If the record contains

sufficient evidence to support the jury’s findings, we cannot reverse them merely because

the record also contains evidence that would support contrary findings. (People v. Perez

(1992) 2 Cal.4th 1117, 1124 (Perez).) Rather, we must “draw all reasonable inferences in

favor of the judgment.” (Cardenas, at p. 119, fn. 11.) “Matters of credibility of

witnesses and the weight of the evidence are ‘“‘the exclusive province’”’ of the trier of

fact.” (Ibid.)

Hernandez argues that there is insufficient evidence that she acted with

premeditation and deliberation under any of the Anderson factors—motive, planning, and

manner of killing. We are not persuaded. There was ample evidence concerning all three

factors, from which a jury could reasonably conclude that Hernandez acted with both

premeditation and deliberation.

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The evidence as to manner of killing in particular supports an inference of

premeditation and deliberation. Hernandez shot Lopez in the center of the forehead at

close range. The jury was free to disbelieve Hernandez’s claim that Lopez provoked her.

Both the close proximity to the victim and the location of the gunshot wound support a

reasonable inference that the killing was premeditated and deliberate. (People v. Marks

(2003) 31 Cal.4th 197, 230 [“the manner of the killing, a close-range shooting without

any provocation … or evidence of struggle, likewise demonstrates premeditation and

deliberation”]; People v. Cruz (1980) 26 Cal.3d 233, 245 [“the killings by blows to only

the head and by a shotgun blast in his wife’s face permit the jury to infer that the manner

of killing was so particular and exacting that [the] defendant must have killed

intentionally according to a preconceived design and for a reason”].)

In addition, the bullet that killed Lopez had a slight downward trajectory, which

supports a reasonable inference that the gun was above Lopez’s head. Because Lopez

was taller than Hernandez, the downward trajectory supports an inference that he was

kneeling or crouching when she shot him. That inference is further supported by the

blood spatter expert’s testimony that Lopez was kneeling or seated on the ground when

he was shot. And the inference is also supported by Hernandez’s purportedly speculative

statements during her interview that the reason for the bullet’s downward trajectory might

have been that Lopez was kneeling in front of her when she shot him. The jury was free

to disbelieve Hernandez’s claim that she could not recall what happened and to conclude

instead that her purported speculation was an accurate description of the killing. Taken

together, the evidence concerning the manner of killing strongly supports a reasonable

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inference that the killing was premeditated and deliberate. (See People v. Hawkins

(1995) 10 Cal.4th 920, 956 [“The angle of entry and the downward trajectory of the

bullets through [the victim’s] body suggest that the position of the gun was somewhere

above his head. As [the] defendant was several inches shorter than [the victim], it could

be reasonably surmised that [the victim] may have been crouching or kneeling at the time

the shots were fired”], abrogated on another ground in People v. Lasko (2000) 23 Cal.4th

101, 110.) Our Supreme Court has described such evidence as strongly suggestive of “an

execution-style murder” (Hawkins, at p. 956), which alone is compelling evidence

supporting a jury finding of premeditation and deliberation, regardless of whether there is

any evidence of motive and planning (id. at p. 957).

The record also contains strong evidence from which a jury could reasonably infer

that Hernandez had a preexisting motive to kill Lopez. Lopez was involved in an

extramarital romantic relationship with Barbra for nearly one year, and he continued to

see her after returning to reside with Hernandez several months before the killing. The

day before he died, Lopez made plans to see Barbra more frequently. One week before

the killing, Hernandez’s adult daughter heard Lopez and Hernandez argue and decide to

get divorced. Lopez called his mother less than two hours before he died and told her

that the relationship with Hernandez was over. He told Hernandez that he was going to

leave, and he had approximately $14,000 cash in his pocket when he died. Hernandez

told detectives that the cash represented one-half of the couple’s savings, which Lopez

had previously taken with him when he moved out of the house. Barbra confirmed that

when Lopez left home in October 2021 he carried approximately $20,000 cash with him.

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And Lopez and Hernandez had argued for hours before she killed him. Given all of that

evidence, a jury could reasonably infer that Lopez planned to leave Hernandez for Barbra

imminently and that Hernandez was aware of Lopez’s plans.

Hernandez had threatened to kill Lopez and had said that she would rather see him

dead than with another woman. And he worried that Hernandez would kill him. In fact,

a jury could reasonably infer that Hernandez had attempted to kill him months earlier

when she hit him with a car. The threat and the incident with the car tend to show that

Hernandez was motivated by jealousy to kill Lopez. (See People v. Winkler (2020) 56

Cal.App.5th 1102, 1165 [“The evidence of the ongoing affair and impending divorce

provided a strong motive for killing the victim”]; People v. Disa (2016) 1 Cal.App.5th

654, 666 [motive for killing shown by evidence that the defendant was jealous of the

victim’s relationship with another]; People v. Williams (2018) 23 Cal.App.5th 396, 410

[the defendant’s “rage at the collapse of [his] marriage” provided evidence of motive to

kill his wife].)

There also was ample evidence of planning. Two shell casings were found in the

bedroom. Although Hernandez could not recall firing two gunshots, she adamantly

denied that a gun had ever been fired inside the house before and that she fired the second

shot after she killed Lopez. She speculated to detectives that she fired one shot before

she shot Lopez. From all of that evidence, the jury could reasonably infer that Hernandez

fired the gun twice the night that she killed Lopez and that she fired one shot before

shooting Lopez. Hernandez thus had time to reflect between firing the first shot and

firing the second. (People v. Streeter (2012) 54 Cal.4th 205, 244 [the defendant’s acts

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that “occurred in stages” demonstrated premeditation and deliberation]; People v.

Horning (2004) 34 Cal.4th 871, 902 [“premeditation can occur in a short time”].) “‘“The

process of premeditation and deliberation does not require any extended period of

time.”’” (People v. Salazar (2016) 63 Cal.4th 214, 245.)

Hernandez’s conduct after the killing further supports an inference that she

planned to kill Lopez. Ramon heard a gunshot and ran into his mother’s bedroom, where

he saw Lopez’s body on the floor with a gun near his right hand. The jury could

reasonably infer from this evidence that Hernandez placed the gun near Lopez’s hand

immediately after she shot him, contrary to her statement to law enforcement that she did

it after calling 911. Hernandez told Ramon that her back was turned when the shot was

fired, and she then told the 911 dispatcher and the fire department that Lopez shot

himself. Moreover, in describing how she might have fired the first shot, Hernandez

explained that she was aware of her son’s presence in his bedroom and how the bullet

might ricochet and harm him, so she aimed high in order to avoid that. Given how

quickly Hernandez staged the scene to conceal that she shot Lopez, the lies that she

immediately told to both Ramon and 911 about what happened, and her awareness of

Ramon’s presence in the house when she fired the first shot, the jury could reasonably

infer that Hernandez had a preexisting plan to kill Lopez, which included a preexisting

plan to cover it up by making it look like a suicide.

In addition, the evidence showed that Hernandez had time to reflect and deliberate

before she killed Lopez. She claimed that she shot Lopez in the head because he

challenged her to do so, the challenge enraged her, and she shot him because she was

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angry. Thus, Hernandez’s own account of the killing supports a reasonable inference that

there was more than “adequate” time after the challenge for Hernandez “to have reached

the deliberate and premeditated decision to kill” (People v. San Nicolas (2004) 34 Cal.4th

614, 658), as opposed to a “‘mere unconsidered or rash impulse hastily executed’”

(Wright, supra, 39 Cal.3d at p. 593). Hernandez had at least the same amount of time as

the defendant in San Nicolas, who saw the victim’s reflection in the mirror, turned

around, and stabbed her. (San Nicolas, at p. 658.) The Supreme Court explained that

“[t]his brief period between seeing [the victim’s] reflection and stabbing her [was]

adequate for [the] defendant to have reached the deliberate and premeditated decision to

kill” the victim. (Ibid.)

Hernandez’s arguments to the contrary are not persuasive. She contends that her

account of the incident demonstrates that the killing was the result of a rash impulse and a

spontaneous reaction to Lopez’s drunk belligerence and negates any inference that she

had a preexisting plan to kill Lopez or that the killing was the result of any reflective

thought or consideration. But the jury was free to believe only certain portions of

Hernandez’s account (or her various accounts) while disbelieving others. In general,

evaluating credibility and weighing the evidence are the exclusive province of the jury.

(Cardenas, supra, 53 Cal.App.5th at p. 119, fn. 11.) We do not reweigh the evidence or

draw inferences contrary to the jury’s findings. (Ibid.) Nor can we reverse the jury’s

findings merely because the evidence might also support different inferences or contrary

findings. (Perez, supra, 2 Cal.4th at p. 1124.)

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Hernandez’s reliance on People v. Boatman (2013) 221 Cal.App.4th 1253, in

which this court found insufficient evidence of premeditation and deliberation, is

misplaced. In Boatman, there was no evidence of planning and little to no evidence of

motive. (Id. at pp. 1267-1268.) As we have explained, the record in the present case

contains ample evidence of both planning and motive.

For all of the foregoing reasons, we conclude that the jury’s finding that

Hernandez committed a premeditated and deliberate murder is supported by substantial

evidence.2

DISPOSITION

The judgment is affirmed.

NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS

MENETREZ
J.
We concur:

CODRINGTON
Acting P. J.

LEE
J.

2
Hernandez argues in her opening brief that the abstract of judgment does not state
the amount of actual custody credits that she was awarded. The People respond that the
actual custody credits are stated on the portion of the abstract of judgment describing the
determinate portion of Hernandez’s sentence, and the forms for the determinate and
indeterminate portions of the sentence cross-reference each other. The People conclude
that Hernandez has failed to show error, and we agree.

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