P.

FACTS

The female victim testified that she had known defendant, who, like her, was

“homeless,” for a few years and she was unaware of any problems he might have had

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2 with her. Defendant lived at a trailer park/campground near the bed of the Mojave River.

At 6:45 a.m. on April 19, 2012, the female victim awoke to the barking of a dog she and

her boyfriend, the male victim, kept outside their tent in the riverbed. She got up, went

outside and looked around, but saw nothing and started to go back into the tent when she

heard a whistle. She looked in the direction from which the whistle came and saw

defendant standing 15 feet away, with a shotgun wrapped in a blanket slung over his

shoulder. The female victim addressed defendant by his first name and asked him what

he was doing in her camp with a gun. Defendant called the female victim “Jamie”—the

name of defendant’s girlfriend at the time—who looked nothing like the female victim.

Jamie prostituted herself, sometimes for drugs. The female victim told defendant that…