Opinion ID: 2599073
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Heading: Robbery of Joseph Sieder (Count II)

Text: On the afternoon of December 24, 1988, Joseph Sieder was robbed by defendant in the elevator of an apartment building at 725 Market Street in Oakland. Defendant entered the elevator while a second, taller Black man stood in the doorway. Defendant told Sieder, Give me your mother-fucking money. I have a gun. Give me your money. When Sieder refused, defendant struck him in the face with a heavy blunt object, causing him to lose consciousness. When Sieder regained consciousness he was lying on the elevator floor, bleeding profusely, with his wallet, credit cards, and $550 cash missing from his torn pants pocket. He was transported to Kaiser Hospital where his facial wounds were stitched closed. Several weeks later, Sieder attended a live lineup and identified defendant as his assailant with 90 percent certainty. At trial, Sieder also tentatively identified a photograph of defendant's cousin, Clifford Williams, as the second, taller Black man who stood in the elevator doorway during the attack. Sieder's wallet and credit cards were later recovered during the execution of a search warrant, in connection with the Rubalcava murder, at defendant's cousin Cynthia Williams's Oakland apartment where defendant had stayed.