People v. Zapata

How courts have described this case

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• finding the 20-year enhancement for personally discharging a firearm during the commission of first degree murder was constitutional
• finding the 20-year enhancement for personally discharging a firearm during the commission of first degree murder was constitutional
• vacating the sentence where “the trial judge improperly relied on her own personal disdain for gang violence, where there 24 was no evidence that the murder was related to gang activity”
• “[T]he transcript shows that the trial judge’s distaste for gang violence was the dominant factor in the determination of defendant’s sentence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).