People v. Reynolds CA2/3

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

THE PEOPLE, B336551

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. TA122815) v.

HAISANI REYNOLDS,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Ricardo R. Ocampo, Judge. Affirmed. Haisani Reynolds, in pro. per.; and Nicholas Seymour, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent. ‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗‗

A jury convicted Haisani Reynolds of first degree murder with true findings on premeditation and principal gun use allegations. Thereafter, Reynolds petitioned for resentencing under Penal Code section 1172.6,1 which limited accomplice liability for some murder-related crimes. The trial court denied the petition at the prima facie stage on the ground that the record of conviction established Reynolds was not convicted under an invalid theory. Reynolds appeals from the order denying his petition. His appellate counsel filed a brief under People v. Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216, and Reynolds filed a supplemental brief. We affirm the order denying Reynolds’s petition. BACKGROUND Reynolds was a member of the 11 Deuce Neighborhood gang.2 On the night of March 12, 2012, Reynolds, fellow gang

1 All further undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code. Effective June 30, 2022, section 1170.95 was renumbered to section 1172.6, with no change in text. (Stats. 2022, ch. 58, § 10.) 2 We derive the background from this court’s opinion affirming Reynolds’s judgment of conviction, People v. Reynolds (Aug. 11, 2015, B247784) [nonpub. opn.]. (See People v. Lewis (2021) 11 Cal.5th 952, 972 (Lewis) [appellate opinion generally part of record of conviction in § 1172.6 proceedings].) We reference the evidence described therein only “for background purposes and to provide context for the parties’ arguments.” (People v. Flores (2022) 76 Cal.App.5th 974, 978, fn. 2, disapproved on another ground in People v. Patton (2025) 17 Cal.5th 549, 569.) We do not rely on these facts in assessing whether the trial court properly concluded that Reynolds failed to