Jones

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL

BACKGROUND

A. Facts Around 8:00 p.m. on January 12, 2013, 26-year-old C.M. walked home from a friend’s place to her Telegraph Hill apartment.2 During the walk, she talked to her mother on her cell phone. When C.M. reached her apartment complex, she went up the stairs to her unit. Still on the phone with her mother, C.M. unlocked the door to her apartment. C.M. then noticed there was a person behind her. She quickly went inside and tried to close the door behind her, but the person, later identified as 25-year-old Jones, “manage[d] to shove his way in.” C.M.’s mother heard her daughter screaming and asked what was happening, but C.M. did not respond because she had dropped her phone. C.M.’s mother then hung up and repeatedly tried to call her daughter back while a friend who was with the mother called the police.

2 Jones was initially charged within days of the incident, but the trial

did not begin until late 2022. On appeal, he does not raise any claims involving the nearly 10-year delay.

2 The front door to C.M.’s apartment opened directly into the kitchen area, with a small table against the room’s left wall.3 On the same wall was an opening to…