People v. Williams CA2/4

Filed 3/23/26 P. v. Williams CA2/4

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION FOUR

THE PEOPLE, B341109

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. BA354470 ) v.

JONATHAN ALEXANDER WILLIAMS,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Renee F. Korn, Judge. Affirmed. Nancy Gaynor, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. No appearance for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Jonathan Williams appeals from an order denying his petition for resentencing under Penal Code section 1172.6 following an evidentiary hearing.1 His appellate counsel filed a brief under People v. Delgadillo (2022) 14 Cal.5th 216 (Delgadillo), and appellant filed a supplemental brief. We review the contentions appellant raises in his supplemental brief and affirm the order. BACKGROUND I. Factual Background Because appellant did not proceed to trial, the relevant facts considered by the trial court were drawn from the transcript of appellant’s preliminary hearing. We briefly summarize this evidence here. Appellant stipulated to the preliminary hearing transcript as the factual basis for his eventual no contest plea and his counsel relied on the transcript for his factual recitation on appeal. At the preliminary hearing, Detective Eric Crosson of the Los Angeles Police Department testified that he investigated the February 23, 2009 murder of Edward Walker on a bus in Los Angeles. He interviewed appellant several weeks later, after appellant was arrested in Arkansas for an unrelated robbery. After appellant waived his Miranda rights, he told Crosson that he got onto a bus on the day of the incident and noticed the victim seated in the back of the bus. Appellant recognized the victim as someone he knew from childhood and also as a rival gang member. Appellant sat down near the front of the bus, but he and the victim made eye contact and appellant heard the victim make a derogatory comment referring to appellant’s gang affiliation. When the bus stopped, appellant saw the victim stand, then the victim and two other males walked toward the front of the bus. The victim said to appellant, “Whassup, cuz?” Appellant stood up and the victim punched him in his lip. Appellant took a gun from his jacket pocket. He told Crosson that when he went to swing back at the victim, the gun went off and hit the victim. The victim fell and appellant ran off the bus. The parties stipulated that the victim died from a gunshot wound to his head.