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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In 2011, Ventura County Sheriff's deputies conducted an investigation of Caramanis for the manufacture and sale of GHB, a drug used by body builders to control the effects of steroid use and by sexual predators to render a victim unconscious. On March 22, 2011, a confidential informant obtained GHB from Caramanis. Caramanis also shipped GHB to a purchaser in Georgia. Sheriff's deputies later executed a search warrant on Caramanis's residence and found large quantities of materials used in the manufacture of GHB. Caramanis previously had been convicted of violating federal drug laws regarding GHB and was a federal parolee. The Ventura County District Attorney charged Caramanis by second- amended information with seven counts regarding the manufacture, transportation, sale, and possession of GHB, and two counts of identity theft. (Health & Saf. Code, §§ 11379.6, subd. (a), 11379, subds. (a) & (b), 11377, subd. (a); Pen. Code, § 530.5, subd. (a).) The information also alleged that Caramanis suffered three controlled substance convictions and served a prior prison term. (Health & Saf. Code, § 11370.2, subd. (b); Pen. Code, § 667.5, subd.…