A Solano County Superior Court judge on Friday set a January jury trial for a 28-year-old San Pablo woman charged with a 2021 Fairfield killing.
During the morning session, Judge Wendy Getty ordered Kamaria Isis Davison, who appeared in Department 8 for a readiness conference, vacated a previously scheduled May 21 trial and rescheduled it for 9 a.m. Jan. 14 in the Justice Center in Fairfield. The trial is expected to last three to four weeks, according to official court documents.
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Getty also set some pretrial matters, including a readiness conference at 8:30 a.m. Aug. 8 and a trial management conference at 8:30 a.m. Dec. 12.
Alternate Public Defender Sean G. Swartz represents Davison, who previously faced a two-day preliminary hearing. Alternate Public Defender Angelica Leonardo appeared as a co-counsel. Deputy District Attorney Bill Ainsworth leads the prosecution. The trial is expected to last 12 days.
Davison, a previously convicted felon, had earlier pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and second-degree robbery for the killing of Michael Vincent Lopretta, 19, of Benicia. Court records show she faces several enhancements to the charges, among them committing offenses while on bail and inflicting great bodily injury or using a firearm.
She was arrested Nov. 5, 2021, at the San Pablo Police Department, then booked into Solano County Jail later that night on suspicion of killing Lopretta in the 1000 block of Tyler Street.
Fairfield Police Sgt. John Devine said at the time that dispatchers received a call at 12:19 p.m. Nov. 4 about “a man down on Tyler Street.”
Upon arrival, officers found Lopretta, who was not breathing, had blood coming from his mouth and had suffered a gunshot wound.
Detectives later determined that Lopretta had responded to a car-for-sale advertisement on a website, OfferUp, that turned into a robbery and was shot.
Davison was arrested again Dec. 1, 2021, at Solano County Jail, on a bail bond surrender on three charges: making a terrorist threat, a felony; battery and brandishing a firearm, misdemeanors. Her bail on those charges is $150,000.
The Solano County District Attorney’s Office filed its complaint against Davison on Nov. 9, 2021.
Davison, who is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds, remains in jail in Fairfield without bail on the murder charge.
If convicted at trial, she faces life without the possibility of parole because the killing occurred during a robbery, a special circumstance.