P. v. Salinas CA4/3
The People charged 15-year-old defendant Leonardo Armando Salinas in “adult” criminal court with attempted premeditated murder and assault with a firearm, along with related firearm, great bodily injury (GBI), and gang enhancements. The jury found him guilty of both counts and found all the enhancements true. The trial court imposed a prison term of 40 years to life.
Salinas claims the evidence was insufficient, the trial court made certain evidentiary and instructional errors, and his counsel provided ineffective assistance. None of these claims has merit.Salinas also claims the trial court did not understand that it had the discretion to strike the punishment for the gang enhancement, that he did not have an opportunity to make a complete record for his first youthful offender parole hearing, that he is entitled to a transfer hearing in the juvenile court, and that the trial court may exercise its discretion on remand and dismiss the firearm related sentencing enhancements.
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