People v. Coronado CA6

I. BACKGROUND

The Santa Clara County District Attorney charged Coronado in 2022 with five counts of lewd or lascivious acts on a person under the age of 14 by force or fear (§ 288,

1 Unspecified statutory references are to the Penal Code. subd. (b)(1); counts 1–5) and two counts of lewd or lascivious acts on a child under the age of 14 (§ 288, subd. (a); counts 6 & 7). Count 1 was alleged to have been committed against victim S.D. between 2013 and 2016, and counts 2 through 7 were alleged to have been committed against victim O.D. between 2014 and 2019. As to all counts, enhancements were alleged under the One Strike law. (§ 667.61, subd. (j)(2).) It was also alleged that Coronado had a prior conviction that qualified as both a prior strike and a prior serious felony. (§§ 1170.12, 667, subd. (a)(1).)2 A. The Prosecution’s Case 1. S.D.

S.D. (born in 2005) has several siblings, including younger sister O.D. Coronado was married to S.D.’s aunt R.C., and S.D.’s family used to live next door to them. S.D.’s parents worked the graveyard shift, leaving for work around 9:00 p.m. and returning around 1:00 in the morning; S.D. and O.D. would stay with Coronado and R.C. while…