P. v. Perez
Defendants Bobby Miguel Perez (Perez) and Jonathan Joseph Carrion (Carrion) appeal from judgments of conviction entered after a jury rendered verdicts of guilty on all counts. Perez and Carrion were convicted of the attempted murders (Pen. Code, 187, subd. (a), 664)of Halston Kearney (Kearney) and Craig Smith (Smith), and the jury found true the allegations that Carrion personally used a deadly weapon, a knife, and inflicted great bodily injury on the victims ( 12022, subd. (b)(2), 12022.7, subd. (a)). Perez and Carrion were convicted of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury ( 245, subd. (a)(1)) on Jaime Ceron (Ceron) and of battery ( 242) on Robert Johnson (Johnson). The jury found true the allegations that each of the crimes was committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang (186.22, subd. (b)(1)). The jury also found true the allegations that the offenses against Kearney, Smith and Ceron were hate crimes committed in concert with others ( 422.7, 422.75, subd. (b)) and that the crime against Johnson was committed because of Johnsons status or perceived status as African American ( 422.7). Each defendant admitted the truth of the allegation that he had suffered a prior serious or violent felony conviction within the meaning of the Three Strikes law ( 667, subds. (b)-(i), 1170.12).
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