The People v. Johnson CA4/2

CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal
DecidedSeptember 20, 2013
DocketE055133
StatusUnpublished

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Filed 9/20/13 P. v. Johnson CA4/2

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION TWO

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent, E055133

v. (Super.Ct.No. FSB1002027)

ROSHADD BERNARD JOHNSON, OPINION

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. Kyle S. Brodie,

Judge. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

Suzanne G. Wrubel, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and

Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney

General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, and Theodore M. Cropley and

Susan Miller, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

1 I. INTRODUCTION

Defendant Roshadd Bernard Johnson appeals from his conviction of robbery (Pen.

Code,1 § 211; count 1) and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury (§ 245,

subd. (a)(1); count 2) with associated true findings on enhancement allegations of

personal infliction of great bodily injury (§ 12022.7, subd. (a)), offenses committed for

the benefit of a criminal street gang (§ 186.22, subd. (b)(1)(C)), and a prison term prior

(§ 667.5, subd. (b)).

Defendant contends (1) his robbery conviction must be reversed because the trial

court erred by giving the jury a supplemental instruction that robbery could be the natural

and probable consequence of assault when the prosecutor had never argued that theory;

(2) the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of

theft when there was substantial evidence that the taking of property was an afterthought

in an assault arising from a domestic dispute; (3) the enhancements for great bodily injury

must be stricken because the evidence was insufficient to establish that defendant

personally inflicted great bodily injury; (4) the enhancements for great bodily injury

should be stricken because the trial court instructed the jury, over a defense objection, on

the group beating instruction when there was insufficient evidence to support that

instruction; (5) the gang finding must be stricken because the evidence of the primary

activity element was insufficient; (6) the abstract of judgment should be amended to

show the correct crime of which defendant was convicted in count 2; and (7) the

1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated.

2 cumulative error doctrine requires reversal. We conclude the trial court erred by failing

to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of theft because substantial evidence

supported giving that instruction. We will therefore reverse defendant’s conviction of

robbery. The People concede the abstract of judgment should be corrected. We find no

other errors.

II. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Defendant had a daughter, S.,2 with Deantonisha3 Spencer. At the time of trial, S.

was seven years old. S. had lived with defendant’s mother from 2005 to 2008. In 2008,

Spencer took custody of S., and defendant and Spencer thereafter had disputes about

visitation. In 2010, Spencer was living with S. in Louisiana with her fiancé, Sharon

Gavins.4

In April 2010, Gavins, Spencer, and S. came to California to visit family. On

April 26, Gavins, Spencer, De-Antonette Brown (Spencer’s sister), and several other of

Spencer’s family members were at a car shop in San Bernardino owned by a family

friend. The group was standing around talking.

Defendant arrived at the car shop. Spencer had not invited him, and she was not

happy to see him. Defendant spoke to Gavins and played with S. Defendant told Gavins

he appreciated everything Gavins had done for S.; the conversation was friendly.

2 The child is also referred to in the record as R.

3 Spencer’s name also appears in the record as De-Antonish and De-Antonisha.

4 Gavins’s first name also appears in the record as Sheron and Shuron.

3 When defendant had been there for about half an hour, at least five other people

arrived, including Harold McKing, Jerry McDowell,5 Jovan Smith,6 and defendant’s

sister, Isha Johnson. Spencer had invited Isha to see S., but she had not invited the men.

Gavins did not know any of the men in the group.

Gavins felt uncomfortable after these people arrived, and he started to walk to his

truck with Spencer and Brown. Smith or McDowell called out to them; Gavins stopped,

and Smith began talking to him. Meanwhile, defendant was holding S. According to

Gavins, defendant was about 30 feet away. According to Spencer, defendant was behind

Smith and McDowell. According to Brown, defendant was two feet behind McDowell.

Gavins turned to leave, and McDowell yelled out “Hoover” or “This Hoover.”

McDowell then struck Gavins on the left side of his lip with a closed fist. McDowell

may have been holding some object when he did so. Gavins fell to the ground and lost

consciousness; he had a large gash on his lip, and his eyes were rolling in the back of his

head. While Gavins was on the ground, defendant, still holding S., kicked Gavins in the

mouth or “on the right side of his face somewhere between his lips and right underneath

his right eye” when Gavins was coming back to consciousness. Gavins again lost

consciousness; the next thing he knew, officers and paramedics were attending to him.

Gavins was taken to the hospital, where he received 12 stitches in his mouth. He also had

5 McDowell, also referred to in the record as “Half,” was charged with and convicted, in a joint trial, of the same crimes and enhancements as defendant.

6 Smith is also referred to in the record as “Puna” and “Poonah.”

4 another gash, which could not be stitched because it was in the center of his lip, and a

laceration underneath his eye.

While Gavins was on the ground, McDowell began digging through his pockets.

He took two cell phones, a wallet, money, and Gavins’s watch. While he was taking the

items, he was yelling, “This is Hoover. You don’t mess with Hoovers . . . .” Brown

testified that defendant kicked Gavins after McDowell had rifled through Gavins’s

pockets.

Meanwhile, Spencer and defendant began fighting and pushing each other, and

defendant put S. down. Isha grabbed S. and tried to take her to McKing’s car, but

Spencer’s aunt stopped her and got the child.

Gavins testified that McDowell’s punch had caused an injury to his lip that

required stitches. He testified that defendant’s kick had caused a laceration under his eye,

and that the kick had caused him to lose consciousness again. Spencer testified that the

injury to the left side of Gavins’s lip was inflicted when McDowell hit him, and the

injury underneath Gavins’s right eye was caused by defendant’s kick.

Police officers interviewed Spencer at the scene. She said she had come to

California to see her family and to let defendant see S. She took S. to the car shop in part

to visit defendant. While at the car shop, defendant held S. and was trying to leave with

her when Gavins attempted to stop him.

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