People v. Jenks CA4/3

FACTS

On June 28, 2018, V.E., aged 69, was living in a triple wide mobile home in the city of Hesperia, San Bernardino County, with her adult son Chris. Around 10 p.m., V.E. said goodnight to Chris, locked the doors, and turned off the air conditioning before going to sleep in her bedroom. Chris was in the family room. He was getting ready to go pick up his friend James, who was at a party about a block away and needed a ride home. Chris drove to the location of the party and was sitting in his car waiting for James to come out when he saw Jenks and someone named “Bear” drive up in Jenks’s car and go inside. They appeared drunk. Chris had met Jenks about two years before, though they were not friends. In fact, Chris had confronted Jenks about making sexual advances on Chris’s girlfriend. Jenks denied it, though Chris did not believe Jenks. Oddly, that confrontation ended with Chris providing Jenks with drugs. Chris would later be convicted of manufacturing drugs, and at the time of the incident in this case, he was on felony probation. On the night of the rape, after Jenks went into the house where the party was being held, James emerged and Chris drove him home, which was about…