People v. Jarmon CA2/7

Filed 11/6/13 P. v. Jarmon CA2/7 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SEVEN

THE PEOPLE, B242385

Plaintiff and Respondent, (Los Angeles County Super. Ct. No. TA120124) v.

KEYOSHA JARMON,

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Laura R. Walton, Judge. Affirmed. Barbara A. Smith, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant. Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Susan Sullivan Pithey and Rene Judkiewicz, Deputy Attorneys General for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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Keyosha Jarmon appeals from the judgment entered after a jury convicted her on two counts of robbery. She challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the convictions. We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND 1. Charges Jarmon was charged in an information with two counts of second degree robbery (Pen. Code, § 211), with an allegation as to each count that a principal in the commission of the offense was armed with a firearm (a handgun) (Pen. Code, § 12022, subd. (a)(1)). Represented by counsel, Jarmon pleaded not guilty and denied the arming enhancements.

2. Summary of the Evidence Presented at Trial a. The prosecution evidence At around midnight, Juan Marentes was looking down at his iPod while walking on the sidewalk near his sister’s house. Glancing up, he noticed a man and a woman crossing the street and walking towards him. Marentes stepped onto the parkway to let them pass on the sidewalk, and the couple separated. The man stopped next to Marentes, produced a handgun and pointed it at Marentes’s abdomen. The woman, later identified as Jarmon, walked around Marentes and stepped down into the street. The man, Jarmon’s boyfriend, began searching Marentes’s pockets and removed some cigarettes, while Jarmon snatched the iPod from Marentes’s hand. Marentes turned away from the boyfriend, quickly grabbed his iPod from Jarmon and started heading towards his sister’s house, flanked by the boyfriend and Jarmon. As the three of them were walking, the man continued pointing his gun at Marentes, who urged the boyfriend not to hurt him. Marentes looked up and saw Vicente Venegas in his front yard. Venegas owned the house in front of the house in which Marentes’s sister lived and had seen the boyfriend and Jarmon “pushing” Marentes on the sidewalk. When Marentes, Jarmon and the boyfriend arrived at Venegas’s front yard, the boyfriend walked through the gate and was met by Venegas. The two men engaged in a brief scuffle. In the meantime, Jarmon entered the yard and stood next to her boyfriend, followed by Marentes, who stood 2