People v. Bryant CA3

BACKGROUND

I Factual Background One morning in April 2018, 51-year-old Bryant and his 70-year-old friend Stanley Norman were both intoxicated when they went to Bryant’s girlfriend’s house. Bryant had been dating his girlfriend (B.P.) for about five months and had a key to the house she shared with her two teenage daughters. After the men arrived, Bryant went to sleep in an upstairs bedroom, Norman stayed downstairs, and B.P. began to cook breakfast. At one point, Norman put his arm around B.P.’s younger daughter and tried to kiss her. B.P.’s daughter went to a bedroom and began to cry. B.P. followed her daughter into the room and told her she would ask Bryant and Norman to leave, but would not tell Bryant what Norman had done, because Norman was too drunk to know what he was doing and she feared Bryant, a “hot headed” person, would become very upset. Following through on her plan, B.P. went upstairs, woke Bryant, and told him “things were getting weird and . . . they . . . needed to leave.” Bryant asked B.P. if “anything sexual happened,” and B.P. said, “[N]o, things were just getting weird.” No more than 30 minutes elapsed between when Bryant went upstairs to sleep and when B.P.…