People v. Ybarra

After 2014 jury trial, Defendant was convicted of 3 counts of 1st-degree murder in 2009 gang-related shooting deaths of 3 teenagers as they left high school. Court sentenced him to mandatory term of natural life in prison. Sentence in this case does not shock moral sense of community and does not violate proportionate penalties clause, as Defendant, age 20 at time of offense, was the person who pulled trigger. Court explicitly held that even if it had discretion in sentence, it would still impose sentence of natural life. Court indicated that it did consider mitigating evidence along with evidence at trial and in aggravation.(ELLIS and HOWSE, concurring.)