People v. Valencia CA6

CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal
DecidedDecember 8, 2014
DocketH038104
StatusUnpublished

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Filed 12/8/14 P. v. Valencia CA6 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

SIXTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

THE PEOPLE, H038104 (Santa Clara County Plaintiff and Respondent, Super. Ct. No. C1105979)

v.

JUAN ANTONIO VALENCIA,

Defendant and Appellant.

I. INTRODUCTION Defendant Juan Antonio Valencia was convicted after jury trial of five counts of committing a forcible lewd or lascivious act on his niece, G. Doe, a child under the age of 14 (Pen. Code, § 288, former subd. (b)).1 At trial, there was also evidence of an uncharged offense by defendant against his sister A. Doe. The trial court sentenced defendant to 30 years in prison. Defendant was granted a total of 372 days of presentence custody credit, including 48 days conduct credit pursuant to section 2933.1. Defendant was also ordered to pay a suspended parole revocation restitution fine of $10,000 pursuant to section 1202.45. On appeal, defendant contends: (1) there is insufficient evidence of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear to support the convictions; (2) the trial court erred by

1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise indicated. admitting into evidence defendant’s booking sheet from a prior arrest; (3) the court erred by allowing the jury to submit a question to an expert witness and by allowing certain testimony from the expert witness; (4) the court erred in instructing the jury pursuant to CALCRIM No. 1193 that evidence concerning the Child Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome could be used in evaluating the victim’s testimony; (5) the cumulative effect of the errors requires reversal; (6) the court improperly limited defendant’s presentence conduct credit under section 29333.1; and (7) the court improperly imposed the parole revocation restitution fine. We agree with defendant’s last two contentions concerning the conduct credit and the fine. As we find no other reversible error, however, we will order the judgment modified to include the correct number of custody credits and to strike the parole revocation restitution fine, and we will affirm the judgment as so modified. II. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Defendant was charged by information filed June 2, 2011, with five counts of committing a forcible lewd or lascivious act on a child under the age of 14 (former § 288, subd. (b)) between January 1 and December 31, 1994. The alleged victim was G. Doe. The information further alleged that a complaint containing the offenses was filed within one year of the date of a report to law enforcement and that there was independent evidence corroborating the allegation. A. The Prosecution’s Case 1. The charged offense involving defendant’s niece G. Doe Defendant was born in 1973 and has several siblings, including two older sisters and two younger sisters. His oldest sister is G.’s mother. G., his niece, was born in late 1983 and was almost 28 years old at the time of trial in 2011. Defendant’s other older sister is B., and his two younger sisters are A. and M. Defendant’s niece, G., testified that beginning in approximately 1992, she lived on Delmas Avenue in San Jose with her siblings, her mother, and the person who she

2 believed to be her father. In late 1993, she learned that she and her older brother were not the children of the person who she thought was their father. The revelation was a shock to G., who had been close to this person, who G. referred to as her stepdad at trial. Further, her stepdad and mother were having problems and were going through a separation. In early 1994, defendant and his girlfriend or wife began living with G.’s family on Delmas Avenue. G. was a 10-year-old fifth grader, who was less than five feet tall and weighed less than defendant. Defendant was 20 years old, 220 pounds, and five feet, five inches tall. Defendant’s girlfriend was about six months pregnant. As defendant would leave the house early for work, he and his girlfriend shared a bedroom with G. so that G. could help the girlfriend in case something came up in connection with the pregnancy, such as her water breaking. Defendant and his girlfriend slept in one bed, and G. had her own bed. Staying in the same room to help defendant’s girlfriend made G. feel important. She even got to skip school a couple of times to go with the girlfriend to appointments. Within about a month of moving in with G.’s family, defendant told G. there was something she needed to do in order to become a “big girl.” He told her that it might cause her a “little bit of pain but it was something that every girl had to go through in order to be considered a big girl.” Defendant talked to G. about it a few times before anything happened, but he did not go into specific detail. G. wanted to be a “big girl.” She was in the fifth grade and getting ready for middle school. However, G. did not know what defendant meant by being a “big girl.” Defendant told G. it was a “game” and that “it was something that had to happen.” He also said that it was a game he had played with his youngest sister M. and with his niece Ma. who was about a year older than G. When G. questioned defendant about it, he told her “it was something normal,” that she could ask her aunt and cousin because he had taken showers with them, and that she had to keep it to herself because that was how

3 she “proved to be a big girl.” G. never asked her aunt or her cousin about it because she was “really embarrassed,” and “they would probably say it did happen” and laugh because G. “couldn’t keep it to [herself] and . . . wasn’t old enough to be a big girl.” G. felt that she “was going to have to play that game.” She “got along really well” with defendant and his girlfriend and believed “it was something [she] had to go through.” G. did not feel that she had a choice and was “dreading” it. Defendant was referring to G. having sexual intercourse with him, which ultimately occurred at least ten times in their shared bedroom over approximately a three- month period according to G.’s trial testimony. At defendant’s preliminary examination about two and a half months before trial, G. testified that she specifically recalled at least five incidents and that there were possibly as many as ten incidents. She had previously told law enforcement that defendant raped her at least 10 times. During the first incident, defendant told her to take her underpants off, to lie on the bed “face up” with her buttocks on the edge of the bed, and to open her legs. Defendant lowered himself to kneel down. When defendant was trying to put his penis into her vagina, G. tried to close her legs but defendant had his arms between her legs “sort of holding [her] legs apart” and preventing her from closing them. As G. was trying to close her legs, defendant told her not to. Defendant told her to open her legs and “release” herself because she “was getting really tense.” G. cried and told him that it hurt a lot. Defendant told her that “it was just going to hurt for a little bit and then [she] was going to be okay.” Defendant pulled out before ejaculating. G. cried. Defendant told her to put her clothes on. G. told defendant that she was sore and that it hurt. He told her “it was okay” and that “it was going to go away.” G. did not immediately disclose what had happened because she “didn’t want anybody to laugh” at her and because she had been told that it “was supposed to be a secret to become a big girl.” G. thought she was “done” and was now a “big girl.”

4 Within a few days, however, it happened a second time. Defendant woke up G.

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