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Constitutional Challenge to AB 333’s Application to the Gang-Murder Special Circumstance

Case Name: People v. Rojas (2022) 80 Cal.App.5th 542, review granted 10/19/2022
Case #: S275835/F080361
Last Updated: June 21, 2023

Does Assembly Bill No. 333 (Stats. 2021, ch. 699) unconstitutionally amend Proposition 21, if applied to the gang-murder special circumstance (Pen. Code, § 190.2, subd. (a)(22))?

Review on this issue has also been granted with briefing deferred in:

Second District

  • People v. Lee (B300756, B305493) [nonpub. opn.], review granted 10/19/2022 (S275449)
  • People v. Gonzalez (B302834/B303671) [nonpub. opn.], review granted 2/15/2023 (S277936)
  • In re D.R. (B317364) [nonpub. opn.], review granted 5/17/2023 (S279489)

Third District

  • People v. Gonzalez (C086562) [nonpub. opn.], review granted 1/11/2023 (S277482)

Fourth District

  • People v. Lopez (E073016) [nonpub. opn.], review granted 2/1/2023 (S277304)
  • People v. Herbert (D078399) [nonpub. opn.], review granted 3/1/2023 (S277900)
  • People v. Oliva (2023) 89 Cal.App.5th 76, review granted 5/17/2023 (S279485/E073979)
  • People v. Chagolla (D079231) [nonpub. opn.], review granted 6/21/2023 (S279679)

Fifth District

  • People v. Nunez (F080359) [nonpub. opn.], review granted 10/19/2022 (S275838)
  • People v. Trevino (F080725) [nonpub. opn.], review granted 11/16/2022 (S276499)
  • People v. Laws (F081267) [nonpub. opn.], review granted 4/19/2023 (S278836)
  • People v. Sutton (F079285) [nonpub. opn.], review granted 4/19/2023 (S278770)
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