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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

On or about July 24, 2010, defendant sold two ounces of methamphetamine and

two ounces of heroin to a confidential informant who was working with police. The

confidential informant used $3,200 in bills to purchase the drugs; the serial numbers of

those bills had been recorded by police before the transaction. Police stopped the car

defendant was driving after he left the location of the narcotics transaction. Defendant

had one of the recorded bills when he was arrested.

A few days later, on July 27, 2010, the San Bernardino County District Attorney

filed a felony complaint, charging defendant and two codefendants with one count of sale

of methamphetamine (Health & Saf. Code, § 11379, subd. (a))(Count 1), one count of

sale, transportation or offer to sell cocaine (Health & Saf. Code, § 11352, subd.

(a))(Count 2), and one count of conspiracy to commit a crime (sale of methamphetamine

and cocaine) (Pen. Code, § 182, subd. (a)(1))(Count 5). Counts 3, 4, 6 and 7 of the

felony complaint charged offenses against persons other than defendant and the other

codefendants named in counts 1, 2 and 5.

Defendant initially entered a plea of not guilty…