Jones

People v. Jones

Caution
249 Cal. Rptr. 3d 190·36 Cal. App. 5th 1028
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJune 28, 2019E069873California3,215 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

RAPHAEL J.

*1029 Defendant and appellant Carl Jones was convicted of sodomy of an unconscious victim pursuant to Penal Code section 286, subdivision (f), a felony. The trial exhibits included a video recording where Jones's roommate recounted what she had observed to an investigator. What the roommate said was hard to discern at times, and the parties disputed whether she said she heard the victim tell Jones immediately before the incident that " 'I'm a little horny.' " Whether the victim made such a remark would bear on whether she was conscious and gave consent. On appeal, Jones contends that the trial court erred by not providing the jury a version of the video's transcript that contains the line " 'I'm a little horny.' " The trial court correctly informed the jury, however, that the video itself was the *1030 evidence, not any transcript purporting to indicate the contents of the video. Therefore, in the unpublished portion of this opinion, we reject Jones's contention and affirm the conviction.

In a supplemental brief relying on People v. Dueñas (2019) 30 Cal.App.5th 1157 , 242 Cal.Rptr.3d 268 ( Dueñas ), Jones contends that the trial court's imposition of a $70 fee for…

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