People v. McDonald
California Court of Appeal
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1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
DETJEN, Acting P. J.
INTRODUCTION
On August 19, 2012, Christopher Patterson snatched a gold chain from around the neck of 71-year-old Guadalupe Ramos. 1 In the process, he either knocked or threw her to the pavement of a grocery store parking lot. Patterson fled on foot; Maxamillion Lee McDonald (defendant), the driver of a car parked several spaces away from the Ramos vehicle, pulled out of the lot and picked Patterson up a block or two away. With defendant in the car was Lawrence Slaughter. The trio—all members of the East Side Crips criminal street gang—then drove to a business that…
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