Martinez – An alleged member of the Richmond gang was convicted of murder in relation to a fatal shooting last year, where a fuel thief and his victim were killed.
Money Green, 21, was convicted of second -degree murder. The jury members also acquired it as a conspiracy to commit robbery, but they condemned it for a lower conspiracy charge to commit robbery, authorities said.
The jury could not reach a verdict on Green’s coacuse, Joe Washington, who faces an attempted robbery and conspiracy charges. According to the reports, the jury members bowed towards Guild in Washington, but told Judge Joni Hiramoto that they could not agree after more than a week of deliberation.
Green now faces a second trial, where jury members will have to determine if the crimes promised to benefit the Richmond gang, Washington, and a third coacked, Amir Shaw, supposedly are part. Shaw was arrested earlier this year and is being tried separately.
The prosecutors claim that Washington, Green, Shaw and a fourth 21 -year -old man, Trejon Davis, placed Peter Popovich, 63, who worked as a cast driver for a company that provided containers to the classmates Canabis.
Duration The alleged attempted robbery, Popovich killed Davis before he was shot and killed.
The group allegedly followed Popovich to Plenanant Hill after detecting their unmarked white of a dispensary in Oakland and apparently had marijuana or effective inside, the authorities allege. Duration, the Prosecutor’s Office argued that cell phone records, DNA evidence and witness descriptions without a doubt established that Popovich killed Davis and was shot by one of the thieves.
The authorities say that Washington was the driver and Davis, Shaw and Green were armed. Green’s lawyer argued that Davis and Popovich had furry fatally and prosecutors could not prove that Green had participated in a robbery or murder.
Washington’s lawyer, Anthony Ashe, argued that the client was not in possession of a cell phone that was traveling with the group from Richmond, to Oakland, A Pleanant Hill and returned to Richmond, after returning to Oakland on the day of homicide. He said that two “beautiful” photos on Washington’s phone, both tasks of another person, were not enough to establish that this was his phone.
“Never, never, never, never in that dodge,” Ashe argued with jurors, referring to a stolen car used by suspects in the shooting. He said there was no Washington DNA on the steering wheel or a marijuana cigarette inside.
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