People v. Evans CA2/7

FACTS

1. The Trial Evidence Evans was a self-admitted member of the Six-Deuce Harvard Park Brims, a Bloods gang affiliate. In 2006 he was a passenger in a car stopped by Los Angeles Police Officer Jeffrey Wolman. Evans told the officer he was on probation, had some marijuana and was living in a garage on 1603 West 60th place in Los Angeles. Wolman searched the garage, which had been converted into a bedroom, and discovered a safe containing 60.22 grams of marijuana and $250 in currency. Evans told Wolman he kept the safe locked so his marijuana would not be accessible to his uncle, who was living with him. In July 2011, there was a series of retaliatory shootings between members of rival Bloods and Crips gang affiliates. Following one of these shootings, police officers obtained a warrant to search the converted garage/bedroom on 1603 West 60th Place. Evans was not present during the search.3 Inside the safe, officers found 456.67 grams of marijuana, a loaded nine-millimeter semiautomatic handgun with a magazine containing ammunition, $14,975 in currency, 38 small and large clear plastic bags, two certificates of car-title in Evans’s name, a traffic citation bearing Evans’s…