People v. Coffer CA1/2

BACKGROUND

In January 2019, the Alameda County District Attorney filed an amended information charging Coffer with two counts of forcible rape (§ 261, subd. (a)(2)), two counts of forcible oral copulation (§ 288a, subd. (c)(2)(A)) and one count of second degree robbery (§ 211). The first four counts included allegations of multiple victims. As to all counts, it was alleged that Coffer had suffered a prior strike offense, two prior serious felony convictions and three prior prison terms. I. Evidence Presented at Trial Evidence was presented at a subsequent jury trial that at around 3:00 a.m. on January 12, 2018, two women who were best friends, S.D. and C.D., arrived by car at a house located at 433 Elsie Avenue in San Leandro, California. S.D. had agreed by text message to meet Coffer there to perform sex acts for $120 after he responded to the women’s online escort ad. When they reached the house, C.D. called Coffer. She saw a light flash through the gate of another house, later identified by police as 420 Elsie, and was told by Coffer to meet him there instead of at 433 Elsie. She and S.D. met Coffer on the porch of 420 Elsie and C.D. went inside with him. The inside was empty…