P. v. Brownlee CA3
In 1991, defendant James Brownlee was convicted of second degree murder (Pen. Code, § 187) with an enhancement that a principal to the offense was armed with a firearm (§ 12022, subd. (a)), crimes for which he received a sentence of 16 years to life. As recounted in our unpublished opinion upholding this conviction, defendant was drinking beer outside a supermarket with a minor named Freddie. Freddie was speaking to two girls who had driven up in a car, when another man walked up and banged on the car’s window. Freddie and the man exchanged words, and the man’s friend pointed a gun at Freddie from a truck parked nearby and told Freddie to back off. The girls drove away and Freddie told defendant about the man with the gun.
“Defendant retrieved a shotgun from his car, asked Freddie if he wanted to ‘handle it’ and gave him the shotgun. Freddie thereafter shot the victim fatally in the head. T
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