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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Fifteen-year-old Kimberly Duran was asleep in the upstairs bedroom of her family‟s Lynwood home on the morning of August 19, 2011, when she was awakened by her barking dogs, looked out her window, and saw Jerry Lamar Thompson in the backyard, holding a bucket that belonged to the Duran family. Duran saw Thompson head toward the back door to the house, and then heard a loud banging sound. Duran then noticed Leroy Willis standing next to the door. She ran downstairs and out the front door, then went to a neighbor‟s house to phone 911. As Duran headed downstairs, the back door was closed. She continued to hear banging at the rear door of her house as she fled, but did not know whether that door ever opened before she exited. A sheriff‟s deputy who responded to the 911 call saw that the back door of the Duran house was wide open. The door handles were broken and the dead bolt had pry marks on it, which indicated that a burglary tool had been used to force the door open. Willis and Thompson were arrested nearby a short time later.1 They were charged with one count each of first degree residential burglary, along with allegations that the

1 Because there…