People v. Walker CA2/6

FACTS

Rasan Durham checked into a motel in Hollywood. He asked the person working at the front desk to put him in touch with a prostitute and was given appellant's cell phone number. Durham called the number and spoke with a woman. He and the woman agreed upon a price and a time when two prostitutes would meet him at his hotel. Durham received a call later that evening that the prostitutes were downstairs and that he had to meet them outside. Appellant met two men outside the hotel who told him they wanted to check out the room to make sure the prostitutes would be safe. Appellant took them to his room where he was repeatedly threatened with death, robbed at gunpoint and beaten. Appellant reported the robbery to the police. Durham testified that the hotel video showed him entering the building with appellant and two other men. After the robbery, Durham again called the number he had been given. He told the person who answered that he was the man they robbed, that he recognized appellant's voice and that appellant and the others were going to jail. Appellant replied, "I should have killed you at the hotel." When someone asked appellant who was on the phone, appellant…