People v. Williams CA1/1

I. BACKGROUND

Defendant was charged in an information, filed October 25, 2012, with human trafficking (Pen. Code,1 § 236.1; count one), pimping (§ 266h, subd. (a); count two), pandering for prostitution (§ 266i, subd. (a); count three), and two counts of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant (§ 273.5, subd. (a); counts four & five). In a complaint filed the next day, he was also charged with possession of methamphetamine for sale. (Health & Saf. Code, § 11379.) The cases were consolidated prior to trial. Defendant was arrested in May 2012, in the parking lot of Motel 6 in Concord when a police search of his person uncovered 18 pills of methamphetamine. At the time, Doe was in the passenger seat of his car. Three months later, Concord police arrested defendant again after responding to a report of domestic violence at a Best Western motel. When the police arrived, Doe told them she had been beaten by defendant on two recent occasions and showed them bruises consistent with her description of events. Police found eight cell phones and a laptop computer in defendant’s hotel room, along with $943 in cash in his pants pocket. Doe was the primary prosecution witness at…