People v. Barr CA4/2

California Court of Appeal·Decided January 30, 2015·No. E058083·Unpublished

Opinion

Filed 1/30/15 P. v. Barr CA4/2

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IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION TWO

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, E058083 v. (Super.Ct.No. SICRF1151887) RONALD EVERT BARR, OPINION Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from the Superior Court of Inyo County. Brian Lamb, Judge. Affirmed with directions.

Jean Matulis, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Julie L. Garland, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Peter J. Quon, Jr., and William M. Wood, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Defendant Ronald Evert Barr and George Chezum Jr.1 lived together in Bishop.

One night, 17-year-old Danny H. and 16-year-old Anthony A. came to their house to drink. They all drank several beers together and Danny and Anthony became intoxicated. As the night progressed, Chezum begged them to play strip poker. At first the two boys refused, but eventually agreed to play. Defendant made a bet with Danny that if he won he would get to shave Danny’s pubic hair and Chezum bet that he would get to “jack off” Anthony. Defendant and Chezum won. Defendant took Danny into one of the bedrooms and shaved his pubic hair. Danny “blacked out.” Anthony knocked on the bedroom door and woke him up. When Danny woke up, his pants were down and defendant was orally copulating him. Danny pushed defendant aside, pulled up his pants and left.

Defendant was convicted in a first trial of misdemeanor annoying and molesting a child. In a second trial, defendant was convicted of oral copulation of an intoxicated person and oral copulation of a person under the age of 18.

Defendant now contends on appeal as follows:

1. He was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel due to his counsel’s failure to request a pinpoint instruction on the effect of voluntary intoxication on his ability to form the requisite intent for his violations of Penal Code2

1 Chezum is not a subject of the instant appeal.

2 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated.

section 288a, subdivisions (b)(1) (oral copulation of a person under the age of 18) and (i) (oral copulation of an intoxicated person).

2. He is entitled to additional presentence custody and conduct credits.

The People concede that defendant is entitled to additional presentence custody and conduct credits and we will order that he receive these credits. We otherwise affirm the judgment in its entirety.

I

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Defendant was charged by the District Attorney of Inyo County in an amended information with the felony offenses of oral copulation of a minor (§ 288a, subd. (b)(1); count 1) and oral copulation of an intoxicated person (§ 288a, subd. (i); count 2). He was also charged with the misdemeanor offense of annoying and molesting a child (§ 647.6, subd. (a)(1); count 3), sexual battery (§ 243.4, subd. (e)(1); count 4), and two counts of contributing to the negligence of a minor (§ 272; counts 9 &10). 3 Defendant and Chezum were tried together in a first trial.

Counts 9 and 10 were dismissed by the trial court pursuant to section 1385 prior to going to the jury. On May 29, 2012, the jury found defendant guilty of count 3. The jury could not reach a verdict on counts 1, 2, and 4 and a mistrial was declared as to those counts.

3 Counts 5, 6, 7, and 8 were charged against Chezum only. In addition, defendant was charged in the amended information for counts 1 and 2 with having suffered a prior serious and violent felony offense (§§ 667, subds. (a)(1), (b)-(i), 1170.12, subds. (a)-(d).) The enhancements were dismissed at the first trial.

The second trial only involved defendant. After the second trial, the jury found defendant guilty of counts 1 and 2. It could not reach a verdict on count 4. A mistrial was declared as to count 4 and was dismissed by the People pursuant to section 1385. Defendant was sentenced on February 8, 2013 to the middle term of six years on count 2. The misdemeanor section 647.6 conviction from the first trial was ordered to run concurrent to count 1, and count 2 was stayed pursuant to section 654. Defendant was granted no custody or conduct credits.

II

FACTUAL BACKGROUND4

A. People’s Case-in-Chief 1. Danny’s testimony

Danny was born in July 1993. On August 10, 2010, he was 17 years old. Danny stated in August 2010, he was about five feet, seven inches tall. By the time of trial, he was six feet, one-inch tall and weighed 176 pounds. During August 2010, Danny was staying at a house belonging to Andri A. who lived on Pa-Ha Street in Bishop.

Danny met defendant and Chezum about two weeks prior to August 10 at a location called Buckley Ponds where he was fishing with his friends Anthony and Sara P. Danny talked with defendant about getting together to have a drinking contest.

4 We note at the outset that both parties in providing their Statement of Facts only relied upon the evidence presented at the second trial as defendant was only convicted in the first trial of count 3 and the only argument that he raises in respect to count 3 is that he is entitled to additional presentence and conduct credits. As such, we also draw the factual background from the evidence presented at the second trial only.

Defendant gave Danny his telephone number and told him to call him anytime he wanted to have the drinking contest.

On August 10, around 4:00 p.m., Danny met Anthony at a smoke shop. They bought cigarettes even though neither of them was 18 years old. They were not asked for identification. They went to Andri’s house on Anthony’s bicycle. There was a party at the house. Anthony and Danny drank beers that Anthony had. Danny also got someone to buy them a 30 pack of beer. Danny and Anthony did not want to be at the party because the people were getting “drunk” and being “stupid.” Danny decided to call defendant. Defendant came and picked them up. Danny brought the remaining beers he had with him. On the way back to defendant’s home, they stopped at a gas station at a nearby casino because Anthony wanted to buy more cigarettes. Danny asked defendant to buy the cigarettes for them.

They went to defendant’s house located on Diaz Lane in Bishop. They all went inside and Chezum was already inside. Danny “shotgunned” some beers outside which involved drinking the beers very fast (about three seconds for an entire beer). Danny thought that in two hours he drank about 15 beers that he had brought and was “pretty drunk.” Danny also thought he drank about four beers that defendant and Chezum had in the house. Danny recalled that defendant was also drinking beers; he thought he drank about five.

Anthony was also drinking and at one point he went outside and vomited.

Anthony and Danny both had some wine that defendant gave them. Danny drank a full cup of wine. At this point, Danny was “too drunk.” He was staggering. Danny thought the wine was stronger than regular wine.

While they were drinking wine, Chezum kept talking about wanting to play strip poker. Anthony and Danny agreed that they would play until they were down to their boxers. Danny agreed because he was drunk and was tired of Chezum asking them to play. They played teams with Danny and Anthony teamed together. During the game, Danny and Anthony were texting each other that the game was weird and they should leave. Danny insisted that he had since deleted the messages from his phone.

While they were playing, Chezum said, “if we win, we will suck you guys off,”

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