People v. Rodriguez

**186 *708 *1125 Defendants Edgar Octavio Barajas and Jesus Manuel Rodriguez were convicted in a joint trial of murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and *1126 participation in a criminal street gang. The trial court sentenced each defendant to mandatory terms amounting to 50 years to life. We granted review to consider (1) whether the accomplice testimony in this case was sufficiently corroborated in light of People v. Romero and Self (2015) 62 Cal.4th 1 , 36, 191 Cal.Rptr.3d 855 , 354 P.3d 983 ( Romero and Self ), and (2) whether defendants' constitutional challenges to their 50-years-to-life sentences…