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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION THREE

THE PEOPLE,

 Plaintiff and Respondent,

v.

GUSTAVO BARRERA OLMEDO,

 Defendant and Appellant.

 G049984

 (Super. Ct. No. 10CF2532)

 O P I N I O N

Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Orange County, 

Sheila F. Hanson, Judge. Affirmed as modified.

Christopher Nalls, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for 

Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Gerard A. Engler, Chief Assistant 

Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Assistant Attorney General, Eric A. Swenson and 

Allison V. Hawley, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

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INTRODUCTION

Gustavo Barrera Olmedo appeals from the judgment entered after a jury 

found him guilty of attempted premeditated murder and shooting at an occupied motor

vehicle, in connection with a shooting incident that occurred on September 9, 2010 at 

Sigler Park in Westminster. The jury also found true enhancement allegations that 

Olmedo intentionally and personally discharged a firearm in the commission of the 

offenses and committed the offenses in furtherance of criminal street gang activity by the 

West Trece criminal street gang. Olmedo contends his convictions must be reversed 

“because the only evidence that he was the shooter—or even present at the shooting—

came from admitted accomplices and no sufficient corroborating evidence connected 

[Olmedo] with the crimes.” Olmedo also argues he is entitled to three additional days of 

presentence custody credits.

We affirm. We conclude independent evidence reasonably tending to 

connect Olmedo to the commission of the charged offenses as the gunman corroborated 

the accomplices’ testimony. That independent evidence included gang expert witness 

testimony and the victim’s testimony establishing Olmedo’s motive, Olmedo’s testimony 

establishing opportunity, eyewitness testimony describing the shooter coupled with a 

booking photograph of Olmedo, taken a few days after the shooting, and evidence of 

false or misleading statements that Olmedo made to the police officers who were 

investigating the shooting. As was the case in People v. Vu (2006) 143 Cal.App.4th 

1009, 1013, “[t]he corroboration evidence was at least as strong as that found by the 

California Supreme Court in People v. Szeto (1981) 29 Cal.3d 20 . . . to be sufficient to 

corroborate the accomplice testimony.” 

As to Olmedo’s presentence custody credits argument, the Attorney 

General concedes that Olmedo is entitled to three additional days of presentence custody 

credits. We will direct the trial court to modify the judgment accordingly.
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FACTS

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I.

NONACCOMPLICE EVIDENCE OF GUILT

West Trece (West) is a “well-documented” criminal street gang in the City 

of Westminster. Sigler Park is located within West’s claimed territory and is its 

members’ “primary hang out or gathering point.” Members and affiliates of West 

particularly congregate near the handball courts at Sigler Park. A gang expert witness 

testified that in his opinion based on his investigation, both Olmedo and Guadalupe 

Cuevas were members of West. (Cuevas admitted to being an active participant in West 

in his guilty plea.)

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Orphans is a Hispanic criminal street gang that is one of West’s rivals. On 

September 9, 2010, Enrique Zacatenco, who was a member of Orphans, started drinking 

alcohol around 3:00 p.m. By 5:30 p.m., he had consumed “like, an 18 pack” of beer and 

was “a little tipsy.” Around 6:30 p.m., he was driving his black Toyota Camry in the area 

of Sigler Park and became bored so he decided to drive around Sigler Park to “see what 

was going on.” 

Zacatenco knew Sigler Park was inside West’s claimed territory and that 

was where West’s members would often hang out; he had seen them there. He also knew 

it is “disrespectful” for a gang member to go inside a rival gang’s claimed territory, and,

if a member does so and causes trouble, the member will “[p]robably get dealt with.” 

Zacatenco testified that such a disrespectful act could result in violence in the form of a 

 

 

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 We view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict and resolve all 

conflicts in its favor. (People v. Ochoa (1993) 6 Cal.4th 1199, 1206; People v. Barnes

(1986) 42 Cal.3d 284, 303.)

 

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 As discussed post, the trial court instructed the jury that Cuevas was an accomplice in 

the commission of the charged offenses.
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beating, stabbing, or shooting. He explained that if a member’s gang is disrespected, and 

the member fails to retaliate for the disrespectful act, it is a problem “[b]ecause you 

should be doing something about it” and “you’re going to lose power.” On the other 

hand, causing trouble and committing crimes gain the perpetrator more recognition

within his or her own gang as it proves “you know, like you can hang.” 

When Zacatenco went into Sigler Park, he saw five or six “people from 

West.” After Zacatenco drove around in the park three times, “they thr[e]w up West 

Trece,” meaning they yelled out their gang name. Zacatenco said he did not know why, 

but he “threw out [his] neighborhood” by yelling back “Orphans,” and “[t]hat’s what 

started it.” He said he knew his conduct might cause trouble and claimed he then tried to 

leave. 

Zacatenco said “they” started running toward his car and he accelerated. 

He said, “they threw some objects at [his] car,” which shattered his windshield, and he 

ducked down. He looked out the driver’s side window and saw a male pointing a gun at 

him; he did not see the gunman’s face. Zacatenco accelerated his car and heard shots. 

He saw a brown-colored minivan speed away. 

Later that night, Zacatenco was pulled over by the police for driving under 

the influence. A police officer observed two bullet entry holes on the driver’s side 

doorframe of the Camry and that the rear passenger window was shattered or broken. 

On September 9, 2010, Tammy Vo, who lived near Sigler Park, was driving 

home when she saw a man, standing outside of a brown-colored minivan on the 

passenger side, holding a black gun, and aiming at a black Camry. She heard at least 

three shots and saw the driver of the Camry drive away; she also saw the shooter run into 

the minivan and the minivan drive away. 

Vo did not see the shooter’s face but she described him as Hispanic and 

having a medium to a “little heavy build” and five feet seven inches to five feet 11 inches

tall; she also described him as “thick,” “[a] little chubby,” and “kind of heavy,” weighing 
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maybe 165 to 180 pounds. Vo said the shooter had thick hair. She said the front seat 

passenger in the minivan had much thinner hair than the shooter. A booking photograph,

taken of Olmedo on September 16, 2010, depicted a male with facial hair and short, curly 

hair. A copy of the booking photograph was admitted into evidence. (Olmedo testified 

that at the time he was arrested, he was six feet one inch tall and weighed 320 pounds, but 

he “wasn’t too sure.”) 

Detective Andrew Stowers of the Westminster Police Department 

interviewed Peter Peck

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and learned from him that Olmedo was not only involved in the 

shooting, but the gunman. Stowers set up a recording device on Peck’s phone and had 

Peck call Olmedo. A male answered the phone, and Peck told him that he (Peck) was in 

trouble as the police had come to his house and had identified him (Peck) as involved in 

the shooting at Sigler Park. Peck also told the male that he too had been identified. The 

male responded by telling Peck to “get off the phone” and “don’t talk on the phone,” then 

said goodbye. 

On September 15, 2010, Olmedo was arrested in Victorville. On 

September 16, Officer William Drinnin of the Westminster Police Department 

interviewed Olmedo. Olmedo told Drinnin that before the shooting occurred, he was 

dropped off at Sigler Park by Peck and Cuevas; Peck was driving a minivan. Olmedo 

told Drinnin he was going to the park to meet some friends; he was evasive about the 

identity of the friends whom he was meeting. He told Drinnin that he was walking 

through the park when he heard gunshots. Olmedo refused to answer some of Drinnin’s 

questions. He admitted knowing several people from West and knowing Cuevas. 

 

 

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 As discussed post, the trial court instructed the jury that Peck was an accomplice in 

the commission of the charged offenses.
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II.

ACCOMPLICE TESTIMONY

The trial court instructed the jury that Peck and Cuevas were accomplices 

to the crimes of attempted murder, shooting at an occupied motor vehicle, and negligent 

discharge of a firearm (the lesser included offense of shooting at an occupied motor 

vehicle). Peck entered into a plea deal in which he pleaded guilty to “certain charges,” 

including aiding and abetting shooting at an occupied motor vehicle and admitting the 

gang enhancement attached to that offense. Cuevas also entered into a negotiated plea 

agreement that included his pleading guilty to aiding and abetting an assault with a 

firearm and active participation in a criminal street gang. 

A.

Peck’s Testimony

Peck testified that about a year before the shooting incident, he had met 

Olmedo through an acquaintance for the purpose of purchasing marijuana from Olmedo. 

“After a while,” he and Olmedo would often hang out, smoke marijuana, and rap to 

music. He got to know Cuevas through Olmedo and the three of them hung out “quite a 

bit.” 

In September 2010, Peck was living at his fiancée’s apartment near Sigler 

Park; Olmedo and Cuevas lived nearby. Peck came to suspect Olmedo and Cuevas were 

affiliated with a criminal street gang. Shortly after a West affiliate got out of juvenile 

hall, Olmedo’s and Cuevas’s demeanor changed. They used to hang out and party, but 

after the West affiliate “came out,” Olmedo became “more hardcore, . . . an 

enforcer-type.” Olmedo’s “talking” changed from “let’s hang-out” to “we’ve taken care 

of this guy” and to discussing violent things. Peck became uncomfortable, but felt he 

could not suddenly cut ties with Olmedo and Cuevas because it “puts up red flags.” Peck 
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planned to buy one last bag of marijuana from Olmedo and tell him it was the last time 

because he could not afford it anymore; they would therefore no longer have a reason to 

hang out together. 

On September 9, 2010, Peck called Olmedo to buy some marijuana. 

Around 10:30 a.m. or 11:00 a.m., Olmedo brought some marijuana to Peck’s apartment 

and Olmedo, Peck, and Cuevas smoked marijuana together. 

Peck’s neighbor asked Peck if he could drive to the smoke shop to buy 

cigarettes for her. He agreed to do that, but told her he needed money for gas. She gave 

him gas money. Peck, Cuevas, and Olmedo went to a gas station. Peck drove a 

tan-colored minivan; Cuevas sat in the front passenger seat and Olmedo sat in the 

backseat. 

Olmedo received a phone call; he spoke on the phone in Spanish for about a 

minute. He said he needed to go to Sigler Park to collect some money. Peck drove to 

Sigler Park, and dropped off Olmedo and Cuevas. Peck parked. A minute or two later, 

they got back into the minivan. Olmedo asked for a ride to his house. Peck drove to 

Olmedo’s house. Olmedo went inside the house while Cuevas stayed in the minivan. 

After several minutes, Olmedo came out of the house, and got into the minivan. He 

asked Peck to take him back to Sigler Park; Olmedo was not carrying anything and did 

not volunteer why he needed to return to Sigler Park. 

Peck backtracked to Sigler Park. At a stop sign, a black car almost hit the 

front end of the minivan. Olmedo and Cuevas got out of the minivan. Olmedo had a 

black revolver in his hand, which he pointed at the black car. Peck heard at least six 

gunshots. When the gunshots stopped, Peck opened his eyes and stepped on the gas to 

get out of there. After Peck saw Cuevas trying to get into the minivan, he slowed down 

to let Cuevas get in, and then drove back to his apartment. 

Cuevas told Peck that he did not “need to be saying anything about this” 

and that Cuevas knew “what happens to people that say stuff about this.” He also asked 
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Peck where he could “stash some weed” and Peck testified that he said, “there was my 

van or he can put it in with my cans or whatever.” 4 

About 15 to 20 minutes later, Olmedo showed up at Peck’s apartment. He 

said that he was sorry and had to take care of business. He thereafter acted as if nothing 

had happened; Cuevas was also “hanging out like if nothing happened.” 

Peck learned the gun had been hidden “within [his] cans.” When he found 

out the gun had been hidden there, Peck told Cuevas he had a family, “[t]his ain’t cool,” 

and “[t]his ain’t working.” Olmedo told Peck, “[s]hut up. If it gets found, somebody will 

go down for it. It will be out of here by tomorrow.” Before Olmedo left, he told Peck

that “if the police do show up, [to] know that [Peck was] not supposed to say anything.” 

Olmedo also said, “[t]ell them whatever” and “[n]ot to talk about this on the phone or 

anything like that or in text or anything.” 

The following day, Peck was informed by an unidentified source not to 

worry because the gun had been “taken care of” and had been sold. 

On September 14, 2010, police detectives came to Peck’s apartment. 

Initially, Peck lied to them, but eventually told the detectives that Olmedo was the 

shooter. The detectives asked him to call Olmedo, while they listened. Peck called 

Olmedo, and told him that the police had just been at his house. Olmedo asked, “for 

what?” and Peck said, “for the incident at the park.” Olmedo told Peck, “I told you not to 

discuss that on the phone,” and hung up. 

B.

Cuevas’s Testimony

Cuevas’s account of the events of the evening of September 9, 2010,

largely agreed with Peck’s account. Cuevas testified that he had met Olmedo earlier in 

 

 

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 The record does not explain what Peck meant in using the word “cans.” 
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2010 and, at some point, smoked marijuana almost daily with Olmedo and Peck. Cuevas 

had several family members who were affiliated with West, although Cuevas denied 

being a member or active participant in West himself. He saw Olmedo hanging out with 

“people from West.” He knew Olmedo would “back up” members of West, meaning he 

would help them whenever they needed help. At some point before September 9, 2010, 

Olmedo told Cuevas he had purchased a gun. 

Like Peck, Cuevas testified that on September 9, 2010, he, Peck, and 

Olmedo were hanging out at Peck’s apartment before they left to go to a gas station in 

Peck’s tan minivan. While driving away from the gas station, Olmedo received a phone 

call and had a conversation in Spanish. Olmedo thereafter asked Peck to take him to his 

(Olmedo’s) house. When they got to the house, Olmedo went inside for a minute. When 

he returned to the minivan, he was not carrying anything, and asked to be taken to Sigler 

Park and appeared to be in hurry. Cuevas asked Olmedo why, and Olmedo told him,

“[n]ot to worry about it.” 

As Peck drove the short distance back to Sigler Park, Cuevas felt something 

bad was going to happen. When they got there, Olmedo got out of the minivan. Cuevas 

stepped one foot out of the minivan. Olmedo drew a firearm, pointed it toward a black 

car, and fired four or five shots. Peck started to drive away and Cuevas got back into the 

minivan. Olmedo did not get back into the minivan. 

Peck drove back to his apartment. Olmedo showed up at the apartment 

minutes later. Cuevas believed the gun was hidden outside the apartment. 

At an unspecified later time, Olmedo told Cuevas he had sold the gun. 

Cuevas also learned that the person inside the black car might have been a member of 

Orphans. At the time he was booked, Cuevas was five feet 11 inches tall and weighed 

200 pounds. Cuevas told a police detective that he knew Olmedo had a firearm. 
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III.

OLMEDO’S TESTIMONY

Olmedo testified in his defense. In September 2010, he both smoked 

marijuana daily and sold it on a daily basis along with Cuevas and Peck. He engaged in 

drug sales at Sigler Park. He knew Cuevas was a participant in West, but did not know 

whether he was a member. Olmedo denied being a member of West or actively 

participating in its activities. 

On September 9, 2010, Olmedo was with Cuevas and Peck at Peck’s 

residence. They left the residence to deliver a sack of marijuana at a local restaurant and 

stopped at a gas station. En route, Olmedo received a telephone call from Cuevas’s 

uncle. He wanted to buy marijuana and have it delivered at the handball courts at Sigler 

Park. Olmedo did not have the marijuana on hand so Peck drove Olmedo and Cuevas to 

Olmedo’s residence to get it. Olmedo denied picking up a gun, owning a gun, ever 

shooting a gun at a car or a person, or telling Cuevas that he had a gun. 

When Olmedo got back into the minivan, he sat in the backseat and Cuevas

sat in the front passenger seat. Olmedo told Peck to drive him to the handball courts at 

Sigler Park. Peck dropped him off short of reaching the park because Olmedo thought

Cuevas’s uncle would be angry if he and Cuevas were together. 

Olmedo walked to the park, met Cuevas’s uncle at the handball courts, and 

sold the marijuana to him. As Olmedo was walking away, he heard gunshots. He was 

scared and ran through the park. He saw his friend’s mother looking for her son and she 

offered Olmedo a ride; he accepted. 

Olmedo went back to his residence that day. He went to Peck’s residence 

two times after the shooting, but he denied ever threatening Peck, or telling Peck not to 

talk to the police. Olmedo testified that he later went to Victorville because his fiancée 

wanted him to get away from drug use as it was bad for his child. Olmedo stated that at 
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the time he was arrested, he was “roughly” 320 pounds and six feet one inch tall, but he 

“wasn’t too sure.” 

BACKGROUND

Olmedo was charged in an information with one count of attempted murder 

in violation of Penal Code sections 664, subdivision (a) and 187, subdivision (a); the 

information alleged that the attempted murder offense “was committed willfully, 

deliberately and with premeditation within the meaning of Penal Code Section 664(a).” 

Olmedo was also charged with one count of shooting at an occupied motor vehicle in 

violation of Penal Code section 246 and one count of carrying a loaded unregistered 

firearm in public in violation of former Penal Code section 12031, subdivision (a)(1) and

(2)(F). 

As to all counts alleged against Olmedo, the information asserted those 

offenses were committed “for the benefit of, at the direction of, and in association with 

West Trece, a criminal street gang, with the specific intent to promote, further, and assist 

in criminal conduct by members of that gang.” (Some capitalization omitted.) As to the 

attempted murder offense, the information alleged that, pursuant to Penal Code 

section 12022.53, subdivision (c), and within the meaning of Penal Code sections 1192.7 

and 667.5, Olmedo intentionally and personally discharged a firearm during the 

commission and attempted commission of that offense. As to the count of shooting at an 

occupied motor vehicle, the information alleged, pursuant to Penal Code section 12022.5, 

subdivision (a), and within the meaning of sections 1192.7 and 667.5, that Olmedo 

personally used a firearm in the commission and attempted commission of that offense. 

The trial court dismissed the offense of carrying a loaded unregistered 

firearm in public after granting the prosecution’s motion to dismiss it. 

The jury found Olmedo guilty of attempted premeditated murder and 

shooting at an occupied motor vehicle. The jury found true all enhancement allegations 

as to those offenses. 
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The trial court sentenced Olmedo to a total prison term of 35 years to life. 

Olmedo appealed. 

DISCUSSION

I.

INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE CORROBORATED THE ACCOMPLICES’ TESTIMONY CONNECTING 

OLMEDO TO THE COMMISSION OF THE CHARGED OFFENSES AND

THE TRUTH OF THE ATTENDANT ENHANCEMENT ALLEGATIONS.

Olmedo argues the prosecution presented insufficient evidence to 

corroborate the testimony of Peck and Cuevas, who, as the trial court instructed the jury,

were accomplices to the commission of the charged offenses, within the meaning of 

Penal Code section 1111.

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Olmedo’s argument lacks merit. 

Penal Code section 1111 provides: “A conviction can not be had upon the 

testimony of an accomplice unless it be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend 

to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration is not 

sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof. 

[¶] An accomplice is hereby defined as one who is liable to prosecution for the identical 

offense charged against the defendant on trial in the cause in which the testimony of the 

accomplice is given.” 

In People v. Williams (2013) 56 Cal.4th 630, 678-679, the California 

Supreme Court explained: “The law on the corroboration of accomplice testimony is 

well established: ‘“The trier of fact’s determination on the issue of corroboration is 

binding on the reviewing court unless the corroborating evidence should not have been 

 

 

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 The jury was given CALCRIM No. 335 and thereby instructed that Peck and Cuevas 

were accomplices to the charged offenses and that the jury could not convict Olmedo of 

the charged offenses or find true any attendant enhancement allegation, based on an 

accomplice’s statement or testimony unless (1) such statement or testimony was 

supported by other independent evidence that the jury believed (2) which evidence tended 

to connect Olmedo to the commission of the charged offenses. Olmedo does not argue 

on appeal that there was any instructional error at trial.
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admitted or does not reasonably tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the 

crime.”’ [Citation.] ‘“The corroborating evidence may be circumstantial or slight and 

entitled to little consideration when standing alone, and it must tend to implicate the 

defendant by relating to an act that is an element of the crime. The corroborating 

evidence need not by itself establish every element of the crime, but it must, without aid 

from the accomplice’s testimony, tend to connect the defendant with the crime.”’ 

[Citation.] ‘The evidence is “sufficient if it tends to connect the defendant with the crime 

in such a way as to satisfy the jury that the accomplice is telling the truth.”’ [Citation.]”

Olmedo does not contend any of the corroborating evidence was 

inadmissible. Furthermore, the corroborating evidence reasonably tended to connect 

Olmedo with the commission of the charged offenses and the truth of the attendant 

enhancement allegations. Evidence independent of the accomplices’ statements or 

testimony established Olmedo’s motive and opportunity to commit the charged offenses 

by showing Olmedo was present at the scene of the shooting involving a rival gang 

member disrespecting Olmedo’s gang. A gang expert’s testimony showed that on the day 

of the shooting, Olmedo was a West member and was in the company of Peck and 

Cuevas, who, the gang expert opined, was also a West member. Zacatenco testified that 

on the day of the shooting, he was a member of Orphans, which is a rival of West, and 

drove around Sigler Park—a place within West’s claimed territory, which he knew to be 

a main gathering place for West members. Zacatenco testified that he, inter alia, yelled 

out “Orphans” at “people from West,” acknowledging that such a provocative move 

would likely result in some form of retaliation that might include being shot. Olmedo 

testified that shortly before the shooting, he received a phone call and then had Peck drive 

him home before he directed Peck to drive him to Sigler Park. Olmedo admitted being at 

Sigler Park at the time of the shooting. (People v. Vu, supra, 143 Cal.App.4th at p. 1022 

[“A defendant’s own testimony may be sufficient corroborative testimony.”].)
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In addition, independent evidence in the form of eyewitness testimony was 

sufficient to corroborate the accomplices’ testimony that Olmedo not only committed the 

charged offenses, he was the gunman. Olmedo admitted that he was driven to Sigler Park 

by Peck in Peck’s brown minivan. Vo testified she saw a brown minivan near a black 

Camry and that inside the minivan, there was a driver and a front seat passenger. She 

also saw a man standing outside the minivan, aiming a gun at the Camry before firing 

several times. (Zacatenco testified he was driving a black Camry that evening.) Vo 

described the appearance of the gunman as, inter alia, having short, thick hair and being 

“chubby.” A booking photograph, taken of Olmedo about a week after the shooting, was 

shown to the jury and admitted into evidence. Thus, the jury was in the position to 

compare Vo’s description of the gunman, the accomplices, and Olmedo’s booking 

photograph. 

Additional independent evidence supported the finding that Olmedo gave 

false or misleading statements about the shooting. (People v. Vu, supra, 143 Cal.App.4th 

at p. 1022 [a defendant’s “false or misleading statements made to authorities may 

constitute corroborating evidence”].) In a police interview, Olmedo denied receiving any 

call while riding in Peck’s minivan on September 9, 2010. At trial, Olmedo testified that 

he had received a call at that time from Cuevas’s uncle to purchase some marijuana from 

Olmedo and deliver it at Sigler Park. Drinnin testified that in an interview of Olmedo 

regarding the shooting, Olmedo was evasive and refused to answer some questions. 

The corroborating evidence here was at least as strong as that held to be 

sufficient in People v. Szeto (1981) 29 Cal.3d 20. In People v. Szeto, members of an 

Asian street gang sought revenge against a rival gang by firing guns into a crowded 

restaurant where rival gang members were believed to be eating. (Id. at p. 26.) Several 

bystanders were killed. (Ibid.) The defendant was convicted of being an accessory to a 

felon for his role in disposing of the weapons. (Ibid.) An accomplice testified that on the 

morning after the shooting spree, the defendant brought the killers food, placed the guns 
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in his car, drove to a spot along San Francisco Bay, and threw the guns in the water. (Id. 

at p. 27.)

In People v. Szeto, corroborating testimony evidence established (1) the 

defendant was a member of the Joe Boys gang; (2) Joe Boys was a rival of the Wah 

Ching and Hop Sing gangs, and the rivalry had erupted into warfare; (3) Wah Ching and 

Hop Sing gang members had killed a Joe Boys gang member; (4) the defendant attended 

the funeral of the fellow gang member killed by the rival gangs; (5) on the morning after 

the restaurant killings, the defendant brought food to the house where the killers were 

staying; and (6) the guns used the previous night were inside the house when the 

defendant brought the food. (People v. Szeto, supra, 29 Cal.3d at p. 28.) The California 

Supreme Court held this testimony established the defendant had a motive and the 

opportunity to aid the killers and therefore was sufficient corroboration of the accomplice 

testimony. (Ibid.)

II.

OLMEDO’S PRESENTENCE CUSTODY CREDITS SHOULD BE INCREASED.

Olmedo argues his presentence custody credits should be increased by three 

days. At sentencing, he was awarded 1,496 days of custody credit consisting of 1,301 

actual days plus 195 days of conduct credit pursuant to Penal Code section 2933.1. 

Olmedo, however, had served 1,304 actual days in presentence custody, not 1,301 days, 

as he was arrested on September 16, 2010, and was sentenced on April 11, 2014. 

In the respondent’s brief, the Attorney General agrees that Olmedo had 

served 1,304 actual days in presentence custody and that the abstract of judgment should 

be corrected accordingly. As Olmedo is entitled to 1,304 days of credit for actual time 

served, and to 195 days of good time/worktime credit, we direct the trial court to correct 

the abstract of judgment to reflect the correct number of days of presentence custody 

credits to which Olmedo is entitled. (See People v. Magallanes (2009) 173 Cal.App.4th 

529, 537.)
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DISPOSITION

We direct the trial court to modify the judgment to credit Olmedo with a 

total of 1,499 days of presentence custody credits, prepare an amended abstract of 

judgment, and forward a certified copy of the amended abstract of judgment to the 

Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. As modified, the judgment is affirmed. 

FYBEL, J.

WE CONCUR:

BEDSWORTH, ACTING P. J.

THOMPSON, J.