P. v. Gonda CA2/6
Douglas Joseph Gonda was charged with assault with a gun and shooting at an occupied vehicle, with gun use and gang allegations. (Pen. Code, §§ 245, subd. (b), 246, 186.22, subd. (b)(1), 12022.5, subds. (a), (d), 12022.53, subd. (c).) In a negotiated agreement, appellant waived his right to trial, pled guilty to assault with a gun, and admitted the gang and gun use allegations. The trial court accepted the admissions and plea.
The probation report and preliminary hearing transcript forming the factual bases for appellant’s plea disclose that on August 7, 2015, deputies were flagged down by a distraught woman whose car window was shattered by a bullet while she was driving with her sister in Fillmore. Appellant admitted being at the shooting scene during a gang confrontation; the women passing in their car were unintended victims. Surveillance camera images and eyewitnesses indicated that appellant was the shooter.
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