P. v. Gonzales
A jury convicted Defendant of first degree murder, finding he personally used a firearm to slay Armando Solorio Govea. (Pen. Code, SS 187; 12022.5, subd. (a).) Defendant contends the trial court erred by excluding a prosecution witness's admission that heavy methamphetamine use made her paranoid in the years after she recounted what she knew about the crime to a police officer. Defendant also argues the trial court erroneously admitted an incriminating detail this witness provided the police in her initial report, but which she could not independently recall when she testified. For the reasons discussed below, court conclude these alleged evidentiary failings, if error, were either invited by defendant or harmless. The Attorney General concedes defendant's parole revocation fine (see Pen. Code, S 1202.45) violates ex post facto principles and court therefore reverse that portion of his sentence, with directions to the trial court to correct the abstract of judgment. Court affirm the judgment in all other respects.
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