Wilson

Filed 6/9/

CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION SIX

THE PEOPLE, 2d Crim. No. B323666 (Super. Ct. No. NA109563) Plaintiff and Respondent, (Los Angeles County)

v.

GREGORY WILSON,

Defendant and Appellant.

Sex trafficking has its own terminology that is unfamiliar to persons who are not engaged in the commercial sex business. For example, few people outside of this business have heard the term “gorilla pimp,” which is at issue here. Until this case, the author of this opinion had never heard anyone use the term. 1 In a sex trafficking case, is defense counsel ineffective, as a matter of law, if counsel does not object to the prosecutor’s referral to the black defendant as a “gorilla pimp” during closing argument to the jury? Appellant contends his counsel was ineffective for “failing” to object because the prosecutor’s

1There are other unfamiliar terms in the sex trafficking lexicon, e.g., “Romeo Pimp” (post, at pp. 14-16); “Track” (post, at p. 6); “Blade” (post, at p. 8); “Game” (post, at p. 14); and “Finesse Pimp” (post, at p. 15). comments violated the Racial…