P.
P. v. Ramsey CA1/3
Opinion
Opinion
Siggins, J.
I. BACKGROUND
Jane Doe testified that she and Ramsey dated sporadically beginning in 2006 or 2007. In March 2010 they were living together in an upstairs bedroom in a house on Sonoma Avenue in Santa Rosa. The other upstairs bedroom was occupied by Rickey Collins. Other occupants of the home at that time included Ed Ballard, Maurice Pichon, Star Dukes, John Locke, and William Sea. The house was, in Collins’s words, “very volatile.” Santa Rosa Police Officer Mark Martin testified that he was dispatched to the house at least 15 or 20 times in the one and a half years he patrolled the area. Virtually every time he went to the house different people were living there and someone was under the influence of drugs. Collins testified that Doe and Ramsey were habitual methamphetamine users. Doe testified that she and Ramsey drank alcohol and used meth on March 13, 2010. They argued about drugs and he was angry that she was not going to get more. Other people in the house tried to intervene to stop the arguments. Locke testified for Ramsey that when he got between Ramsey and Doe, she threw a can of vegetables at Ramsey and hit him in the mouth. At that point Locke decided “I’m getting out…