People v. Flores

Opinion

EVANS, J.

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered after a jury found him guilty of first degree robbery and simple assault. He challenges the trial court’s restriction of his cross-examination of an immunized witness.

The robbery and assault occurred in the late evening hours on a Sacramento street as the victim, Jack Congalton, was returning to his residence carrying a pasteboard barrel containing his clean laundry. He had noticed a car, with its left headlight out, circle the block, and then follow him a short distance. The vehicle stopped and a male passenger, later identified as…