The People, Plaintiff and Respondent v. Jesus Manuel Rodriguez and Edgar Octavio Barajas, Defendants and Appellants.

Summary

The court held that the accomplice testimony against Barajas was not sufficiently corroborated and therefore reversed his convictions and ordered entry of a judgment of acquittal. It held that Rodriguez was entitled to a remand to supplement the record with youth-related information relevant to a future youth offender parole hearing, rendering his constitutional challenge to his sentence moot at this stage, and directed consideration of a newly enacted firearm-enhancement provision. The opinion contains no separate writings.