P. v. Gillespie CA4/1
In this gang-related case, an information jointly charged Samuel Gillespie and his codefendants Dominique Abdullah and Keshawn Price with certain felony offenses. Abdullah and Price pleaded guilty to shooting at an occupied vehicle (Pen. Code, § 246) and admitted allegations that they each had suffered a serious felony prior and a strike prior. A jury found Gillespie guilty of attempted murder (count 2, §§ 664 & 187, subd. (a)) and shooting at an occupied vehicle (count 3, § 246). The jury also found true the following allegations: the attempted murder was willful, deliberate, and premeditated within the meaning of section 189 (§ 664, subd. (a)); Gillespie was a principal in the commission of the attempted murder and at least one principal personally discharged a firearm during the commission of that offense (§ 12022.53, subds. (c) & (e)(2)); and Gillespie committed the crimes for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a criminal street gang
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