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BACKGROUND

Viewed in accordance with the usual rule of appellate review (People v. Ochoa (1993) 6 Cal.4th 1199, 1206), the evidence established the following. 1. Prosecution evidence. On May 25, 2010, Los Angeles Police Officer Edgar Ramos was working on a drug trafficking sting operation at Sixth Street and San Pedro, an area known for narcotics transactions. He was monitoring Officer Ben McCauley, who was posing as a customer. Defendant Lockett and a man named Baptiste were standing on the street. An unidentified man approached them and spoke with Lockett. As they talked, Baptiste kept looking up and down the street. When a marked police car stopped at a nearby traffic light, Baptiste said something like “hold on” and the three men “just froze there.” After the patrol car drove off, Baptiste “signaled with his hand [and] motioned him sort of to go ahead with the transaction,” Lockett then “remove[d] what appeared to be a clear plastic bindle containing off-white solids resembling rock cocaine from his buttocks area.” Ramos testified this was a common place for dealers to hide their drugs due to the unlikelihood of being strip-searched in the field. Lockett took something from…