People v. Reed CA1/1

I. BACKGROUND

Reed and B.M. were an on-and-off couple for ten years and had a son. They met when both were selling drugs in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, where Reed was also “pimping women.” When their son was two years old, B.M. entered a residential drug treatment program after she was arrested for using methamphetamine. She successfully completed the program and was sober for about five years, eventually working as a drug and alcohol counselor herself. Meanwhile, Reed was incarcerated for about three years. He was released in the spring of 2018. Following his release from prison, Reed stayed with B.M. some of the time and sometimes stayed at his great aunt’s home in Vallejo, where his mother also lived. He was selling drugs again and said he wanted to resume working as a pimp but “didn’t have a girl yet.” He was apparently attending a class at College of Marin, and wrote in a college notebook about a business plan for an escort service. B.M. had relapsed and was using certain drugs with Reed, but she did not want to use methamphetamine or have it “around [her].” She saw a gun in Reed’s hands or in the trunk of his car during this period and told him to get rid of…