People v. Woodall CA6

I. BACKGROUND

A. The Underlying Offenses In August 2022, police officers stopped a car in which Woodall was riding. For reasons not apparent in the record, the officers decided to arrest Woodall and conducted a search incident to arrest. On Woodall, officers found a plastic bag containing smaller baggies with over 11 grams of heroin, over a gram of cocaine, 15 grams of methamphetamine, and three grams of fentanyl. Woodall also had $1,700 in cash and a piece of paper with multiple names next to “number amounts,” which the police believed to be a “pay-owe sheet” to keep track of drug sales, in part because there was a slang reference to fentanyl pills, or “blues.” In the car, police found nearly one additional gram of heroin, and in a backpack that Woodall identified as his, officers found a cell phone and a small scale with apparent drug residue. A second cell phone was found on the passenger seat where Woodall had been riding. B. Charges and Trial Woodall was charged with one count of possessing heroin and cocaine for sale in violation of Health and Safety Code section 11351 and one count of possessing methamphetamine for sale in violation of Health and Safety Code section 11378.…