Green

By jury trial appellant Green was convicted on three counts, of violating Health and Safety Code sections 11366.6 (utilizing a building specifically designed to suppress law enforcement entry [“rock house”] in order to manufacture, sell or possess for sale cocaine) (count III); 11366 (maintaining a place for unlawfully selling, giving away or using cocaine) (count II); and 11350, subdivision (a) (possession of cocaine, a lesser included offense of possession for sale of cocaine [Health & Saf. Code, § 11351] as charged) (count I). He was sentenced to an upper term of five years in the state prison on count III (Health & Saf. Code, § 11366.6) and two concurrent terms on counts I and II.

At 5:30 a.m. on April 10, 1986, a sheriff’s SWAT team (Special Weapons and Tactics) assisted other police departments in executing a search warrant for a fortified single family residence on 53rd Street in South Los Angeles. All windows and doors were barred, backed with heavy metal mesh. The deputies entered by using a heavy duty mountain rescue truck and four grappling hooks to remove the metal grated steel front door. Appellant was in the living room with a shotgun nearby. Another man…