People v. Reyes CA4/3

FACTS

1. The Incident On the evening of May 16, 2020, Reyes—then age 23—was at a park in Anaheim with three teenage females, smoking marijuana. Reyes and 17-year-old Jolina had also ingested Xanax. Reyes told Jolina he wanted her to be his girlfriend; she rebuffed him, and he appeared to be upset. A few minutes later, a group of young males approached and accused Reyes and his friends of “tripping” on them; Jolina got into an argument with one of them. During the argument, Reyes somehow took possession Jolina’s knife. After the argument ended, as the males were walking away, Reyes tried to sell them marijuana.

3 Jolina became angry at Reyes for his perceived friendliness to the males. When Reyes started to walk away, Jolina asked for her knife back. Reyes replied he would return it when Jolina was sober. She responded with anger and the two argued. One of the other females grabbed Reyes’s backpack, which contained marijuana. She told him she would return the backpack when he returned Jolina’s knife. When Reyes again tried to leave, the females surrounded him, and he began pushing the youngest of them, who was 16. She hit him; he hit her back. Her older sister—the one who had…