People v. Pineda

*471A jury found defendant Armando Pineda, Jr. (defendant) guilty of second degree murder for shooting the patriarch of a neighboring family, *472Rogelio Islas (Rogelio).1 Defendant was 17 years old at the time of the crime, and the Los Angeles *271County District Attorney directly filed the charge against him in a court of criminal jurisdiction, rather than a juvenile court. Owing to that filing decision and the subsequent repeal of "direct file" procedures effected by Section 4 of the Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016 (Proposition 57), we must decide an issue pending on our Supreme Court's…