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I. FACTS

A. Molestation Charges by Jane Doe On November 5, 2007, Martinez police received a report of sexual abuse. Twenty-seven-year-old Jane Doe told an officer that her brother Richard Clyde Bonella had sexually abused her from 1984 through 1996.3 She gave the officer a typewritten letter detailing the circumstances of the childhood abuse. A complaint was filed in April 2008 charging Bonella with 40 counts of lewd conduct with a child under age 14. His brother Joseph Bonella4 was also charged with three counts of lewd conduct. After his June 2008 preliminary hearing, Bonella was held to answer for 20 counts of lewd conduct. In July 2008, an information was filed charging 13 counts against him—eight counts of lewd conduct and five counts of forcible sex offenses. It also charged Joseph Bonella with two counts of lewd conduct.5 In each count, Jane Doe was alleged to be the victim. The information also included a special statute of limitations allegation that Jane Doe was a minor at the time of each of the offenses and did not report them to police until November 2007. (§ 288, subd. (a); see former § 261, subd. (a)(2) [Stats. 1986, ch. 1299, § 1, pp. 4592-4593; Stats. 1990, ch.…