People v. Woods CA6

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1

On October 27, 2018, Woods was an inmate at Salinas Valley State Prison, serving a sentence in a case from Orange County.2 A correctional officer saw tobacco

We take these facts from the probation report prepared for Woods’s sentencing. 1 2 On August 31, 2016, Woods was sentenced to six years in prison for a violation of section 266i, subdivision (a) (pimping and pandering a minor) (Orange County case). residue and ashes on the floor next to Woods’s bed. A search of Woods’s person revealed a plastic nasal spray bottle with a brown liquid inside it that Woods described as “ ‘a little bit of [h]eroin.’ ” The liquid in the bottle tested positive for heroin. Officers searched Woods’s bunk and locker and found three hypodermic syringes that had traces of brown liquid on them. While in custody in Salinas Valley State Prison on the Orange County case, Woods was charged by complaint in Monterey County on January 2, 2019, with possession of contraband in a prison (Pen. Code,3 § 4573.6, subd. (a); count 1) and possession of drug paraphernalia in prison (§ 4573.8; count 2); with two allegations he had previously sustained a juvenile adjudication for a…