People v. Reynolds CA2/7

Filed 1/6/26 P. v. Reynolds CA2/7 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SEVEN

THE PEOPLE, B344239

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. v. NA103415-04)

DEVONTAE LAKEITH REYNOLDS,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, James D. Otto, Judge. Dismissed. Devontae Lakeith Reynolds, in pro. per.; Jeanine G. Strong, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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Devontae Lakeith Reynolds appeals from the superior court’s order denying his petition under the Racial Justice Act and declining to take any action on his request for recall and resentencing. We appointed counsel to represent Reynolds on appeal. After reviewing the record counsel for Reynolds filed a brief pursuant to People v. Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216 that did not identify any arguable issues. After independently reviewing the record and the contentions in Reynolds’s supplemental brief, we have not identified any either. We dismiss the appeal because it is from a nonappealable order.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Believing Jason Beaulieu, a member of a criminal street gang, shot at the house of Zariah McCollum, an associate of another gang, Reynolds obtained a firearm for co-defendant Alejandro Alvarado and drove Alvarado, McCollum, and Kaleah Smith to Beaulieu’s apartment building. Reynolds and his companions saw Beaulieu sitting on the front stairs of his apartment with another individual, Jacob James. As Reynolds drove by Beaulieu and James, Alvarado fired several shots from the car, one of which hit Beaulieu in the head and killed him. James escaped. The People charged Reynolds, along with Smith and Alvarado, with the murder of Beaulieu (Pen. Code, § 187, subd. (a))1 and the attempted willful, deliberate, and