People v. Kill CA1/5

BACKGROUND

A.

On April 27, 2021, officers from the San Francisco Police Department executed a search warrant at Kill’s room at a San

Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

We deny as unnecessary Kill’s request for judicial notice of the exhibits and petition she filed in a related writ petition. (See In re Reno (2012) 55 Cal.4th 428, 484 [“[p]etitioners need not separately or specifically request judicial notice of all documents connected with their past appeals”].) 1 Francisco hotel. At the time, the hotel was under contract with the City and County of San Francisco as a shelter-in-place hotel during the COVID-19 epidemic. Kill was in the room when the officers arrived. Inside the room, the officers recovered a California identification bearing the name “Thor Kill” and a Washington identification bearing the name “Samuel Isaac Valentine,” both of which pictured Kill (albeit at different ages). The officers also found an envelope addressed to Valentine, boxes containing lead bars and drill bits, and a “cask tool” in the hotel room.

Officers also searched a storage unit that Kill had rented. The officers found (and seized) approximately 125 pounds of black…